Holy figs, this daily link post looks like one of my weekly roundups of old:
• PopMatters takes a quick look at Robert Pollard's Town of Mirrors
• PopMatters again, on Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe: The WWII Years
• Iconoctlán examines The Comics Journal #293 (en Español; Google translation)
• The Austin American-Statesman's lengthy roundup of coffee-table book holiday recommendations includes Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe: The WWII Years and Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell
• NuVoid wraps up the 2008 output of Robert Pollard, including Town of Mirrors
• Did you know that if you buy the Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943 (Vol. 3) DVD set you also get an exclusive Popeye mini-comic we produced with a story from our upcoming Popeye Vol. 4 collection? Booksteve noticed
• Chris Barat reviews Popeye Vol. 3: "Let's You and Him Fight!"
• Forward talks to Miss Lasko-Gross for a profile of Jewish women cartoonists
• The North Adams Transcript looks at Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane
• The St. Louis Post-Dispatch includes Abandoned Cars, Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell, and Jules Feiffer's Explainers on its list of "Best Books of 2008: Graphic Literature"
• Beard reviews Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers
• Tropismes (l'Appartement) is yet another French site looking at Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw (Google translation)
• Terri Torres is excited for the new issue of Linda Medley's Castle Waiting
• On the USA TODAY Pop Candy blog, Whitney Matheson declares Lilli Carré's The Lagoon is the "Best book [she] read" last week
• Cartoonist Mark Kaufman is looking forward to our Humbug collection
• Dustin Harbin's top 10 "Best Comics of 2008" includes Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga, Popeye Vol. 3, and Bottomless Belly Button
• Here's video from Pat Moriarity's art opening at 108 Occidental Gallery in Seattle, with music from Pat and his son Jack
• Bill Willingham looks back at Coventry
• Wayno talks about contributing to our forthcoming collection of 1980s "New Wave" minicomics
• On the Comics Comics blog, Mark Newgarden & Paul Karasik need your help in dating an Ernie Bushmiller Nancy strip
• Dan Zettwoch discusses his contribution to Beasts! Book 2
• The Dallas Morning News reports on an exhibit of Bill Mauldin cartoons at the 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City
• Mark Mattson compares our annual catalog favorably to the Sears Wish Book — did you get yours?