Sacco interview with LA Weekly

LA Weekly has a nice Joe Sacco interview/feature up, written by our pal Scott Thill. Worth a read. Oddly, it's one of the few interviews with Joe that I've read where he is asked about Bush's foreign policy in the middle east, and needless to say, he's not happy. Sacco for President!

Black Hole

Scientists discover a new material promising to be the blackest on earth; contrary to initial reports, it was not discovered in the inkwell of Charles Burns. Speaking of Charles, he's about to head out on tour to promote the softcover edition of Black Hole.

Georgetown Art Walk & Forney launch

GEORGETOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF MONTHLY SECOND SATURDAY GEORGETOWN ART ATTACK! Seattle's colorful, industrial Georgetown neighborhood – home of the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery – has drawn a lot of recent attention as the last outpost of a true blue-collar Bohemian arts community. In an effort to showcase the many accomplished artists and creative enterprises based in the neighborhood, the Georgetown Merchants Association is pleased to launch the first Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack. The first of these lively monthly artwalks will take place on Saturday, February 9, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. More than two dozen galleries, studios, nightclubs, boutiques, and cafes…

Classic Bill Gaines TV clip

  This Classic Television Showbiz clip is fantastic, featuring To Tell the Truth with guest William M. Gaines, publisher of EC Comics and MAD Magazine. It's pretty funny how the contestants clearly refuse to believe that a big ol' hippie like Gaines could possibly be a Madison Ave. publishing mogul.  

Dennis sings

Our pal Craig Yoe has some vintage Dennis the Menace audio up on his Arflovers blog (courtesy of DJ David B.). Makes a great companion to the Terr'ble Thompson Musical!

New Website Feature of the Day: FLOG! Comments

As several folks have already noticed and taken advantage of, you can now leave comments on FLOG. You must be logged in to leave comments, so if you're not registered yet, why not do it right now? The commenting process itself is fairly self-explanatory. If there's a particularly hot discussion that you want to follow, or if you want to know if anyone responds to your trenchant observation, the comment thread of each and every FLOG post has its very own RSS feed — the link is right at the top of the Comments section. At this point we don't…