No Online Commentary & Diversions tomorrow if I can help it: I'm taking the day off!
• Awards: Congratulations to Mome contributor Eleanor Davis for being nominated for this year's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer award (given out at the Eisner Awards ceremony at Comic Con International) for her excellent Toon Books release Stinky!
• Review: "The biggest surprise might be how good these stories are, even if they failed to take off in the way that, say, Superman did… [T]he Notes section at the end, written by editor Greg Sadowski, …is truly fantastic… His studious efforts are worth the price of the book alone… These stories deserved another look and more attention. Sadowski has done an admirable job of making Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936–1941 not only reverent, but exciting and fun as well." – John Hogan, Graphic Novel Reporter
• Review: "I might say [Michael] Kupperman is one of the greatest satirists of our time, if I could figure out what he's satirizing. The basic facts: this collect[ion] of… Tales Designed to Thrizzle… featur[es] dozens of short pieces done on a chaotic array of subjects in so many styles much of it comes across as found art, and almost all of it's hilarious. Any attempt to summarize things like 'Mentally Ill Gangster Comics' or 'Crime Is Pushing the Limits' would miss the point completely. Except to say this is media culture put through the grinder. Top-notch." – Steven Grant, Comic Book Resources
• Interview: Ladies and gentlemen, the Inkstuds interview with Bob Fingerman
• Good news: The Comics Reporter reports that Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga, Ted May & Dan Zettwoch will be returning to the pages of the weekly Riverfront Times
• Things to see (and buy): New Jim Flora print