Online Commentary & Diversions
• Analysis: "For me, Tom [Kaczynski]'s work is an oasis in the desert… Tom K builds comics that could be likened to a brick house. These are solid comics." – Frank Santoro, Comics Comics
• List: I haven't heard of pop group 3OH!3 before, but their frontman Sean Foreman has pretty good taste in comics going by this Top 10 list he gave to The AOL Radio Blog: Black Hole, Bottomless Belly Button, Monster Parade, Epileptic, Jimmy Corrigan…
• Review: "For my money, [Joe] Daly is hilarious, with an ear for great dialog, a nice feel for the way characters and convertibles glide across the landscape of the comic page, and a zest for uniquely convoluted plots [in The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book]."- Steve Duin, The Oregonian
• Review: "Previous assemblages of [Prince] Valiant being out of print, Fantagraphics, a leader in the field, has stepped forward with gloriously restored art reproduced in generous dimensions and abetted by the essays of experts. This initial volume… demonstrates just why Valiant continues to burn so brightly… Simultaneously nostalgic and eternal, Hal Foster's populist masterwork deserves this accessible enshrinement." – Paul DiFilippo, The Barnes & Noble Review
• Review: "I dont think I’ve ever read anything like Low Moon by Jason and I mean that in a good way… Low Moon has a brilliant almost tightrope deadpan mix of sad and funny… Jason is capable of stories with heart like no other; particularly stories with an aura of heartrending and heartbreak. Low Moon might be the second most melancholy book that I’ve read over the past year… Low Moon by Jason continues to push the medium forward and confound readers expectations with brilliant stories that defy categorization." – Brian Lindenmuth, BSCreview
• Profile: La Perse looks at the "disturbing… beautiful" comics of Dave Cooper (Google translation)
• Plug: Cartoon Brew recommends The Comics Journal #299 for the reprint of Myron Waldman's Eve, "a rare treat for Fleischer Studio fans – or anyone interested in clever, cartoon story-telling."
• Plug: "[Abstract Comics is] more proof that comics are truly an art form. They can be just as weird, surreal, absurd, artistic, expressive and transcendent as any other medium." – Corey Blake
• Plug: At Arts Journal, Regina Hackett blurbs the "Comics Savants" exhibit at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery: "Some of these people are the best of the best."
• Things to see: Ray Fenwick attends Dweebo's School of Art (a day-long collaborative drawing performance); plus further adventures of Dweebo & Pupil