Daily links: 12/23/08

USA TODAY Pop Candy names Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw the top comic of 2008, with The Lagoon by Lilli Carré at #6

Rob Clough has a typically thoughtful review of The Lagoon

The Miami Herald casts a favorable eye on Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell and Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert by Bill Schelly

Tim O'Shea interviews Ivan Brunetti

The Daily Cross Hatch presents part 2 of their interview with Kevin Huizenga

A last-minute Christmas gift from Ellen Forney: free sexy-elf desktop wallpaper!