• Review: 13 Milliones de Naves says Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars is "drawn with the raw precision of a compassionless physiognomist, with a style midway between Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns… removing the rubble from the shipwreck and bringing to the fore a collection of human beings in the state of abandonment… [T]his book is anything but indifferent; the realistic and stark graphic style of its author shakes with a flying kick… [T]he Lane name has many numbers to enter on the same roster as Tomine, Burns, Clowes and company." (Translated from Spanish with help from Google)
• Review: Bookgasm on Boody. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers: "Each page of Boody is a delight to take in. These comics are colorful, good-natured and good-humored, full of pep and personality… Rogers definitely was ahead of his time, demonstrating more zeal for the medium than much of his contemporaries."
• Review: Rob Clough on Ho! The Morally Questionable Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti: "No other artist in the history of comics has worked out their misanthropy and self-loathing on the page quite like Ivan Brunetti… with each strip yet another needle jabbed into the eyes of his viewers. Brunetti's enormous discipline and talent as a cartoonist shines through in this collection…"
• Review: A Bucket of Instant Sunshine reads Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes: "…I think it's safe to say that if you like surreal imagery, vague noir-ish plotting, and freak shows, then you will probably like this."
• Events: The Daily Eastern News reports from yesterday's Ivan Brunetti talk at Eastern Illinois University