September is a-cumen in with Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Review: "[The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book], about a monkey-footed man who muddles around a beach community in South Africa, is amazing… Both stories are laid-back, funny, and entertaining… Totally [recommended]. [Joe] Daly is one of my favorite new talents in comics, and… this is… one of my top five comics to be released this year so far." – Paul Constant, The Stranger
• Review: "You'll Never Know… is a daughter's pursuit of her father's untold war story as she seeks to recover what he has wilfully held back from her… [Carol] Tyler manages to unravel the saga brilliantly at every level of narrative and artistic execution. Basic training for the war, courtship of her mother that happens almost simultaneously, the invasion of north Africa and conflicted events in the artist's own life with husband, daughter and father in turmoil emerge seamlessly. Memory and the present flow together, make sense together… After all this time, the second world war has grown closer to comic art in the best sense." – Paul Buhle, Morning Star
• Interview: At The Daily Cross Hatch, Brian Heater begins a multi-part Q&A with The Squirrel Machine creator Hans Rickheit: "I kind of live in my own insular world. The notion that anyone reads my comics other than myself is kind of weird and mystical."
• Things to see: "Meet 'Pig-Pen'" (via The Comics Reporter)