Daily links: 12/31/08

The Seattle Times casts a well-deserved spotlight on the often-overlooked writing in Beasts! Book 1 and Book 2

The Daily Blog's "10 for '08" includes Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers

Comic Book Resources, counting down the "Best 100 Comics of 2008," slots in Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham at #72 and Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman at #70 (with #60-1 still TBA)

The Beat presents the Metro's R. Sikoryak's Frank Miller's Archie

The Stranger points out a recent in-strip visit to Seattle by Zippy the Pinhead