Your daily dose of Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Profile: The Oklahoma Gazette dedicates a cover feature (pictured above) to native son Boody Rogers, talking to Yoe, Nadel and Spiegelman about his work. Of our collection of his comics they say "Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers reprints 13 of Boody Rogers' comic-book stories between 1948 and 1950. Although they have fallen into the public domain, publisher Fantagraphics has restored the color and images to its typical standards of quality … not to mention standards of unapologetic weirdness."
• Review: "…Terr'ble Thompson is… playful fun… [Gene] Deitch’s upbeat mangling of the English language and silly twists will keep readers of many ages entertained." – Michael C. Lorah, Newsarama
• Things to see: Bookforum commissions illustrations from such notables as Paul Hornschemeier, Tony Millionaire, Dash Shaw, Chris Ware and others for their "Fiction Forward" feature (there's a bunch of fiction excerpts to read, too)
• Things to see: Dick Cheney's gonna get that wascally new Pwesident. By Drew Friedman, for The New Republic