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Every day in July we're spotlighting books from our month-long Hidden Gems Sale, wherein we're featuring some of our under-the-radar backlist titles and encouraging you to try them by offering them at a nice discount of 25% off! The subject of today's spotlight, Penny Van Horn, cut her teeth in the Weirdo and Twisted Sister anthologies. Recipe for Disaster "The secret was revealed to me by Carl Jung, and was further illuminated by Sigmund Freud, Herman Hesse, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and Sylvia Plath. Laugh if you must at this cast of characters, but at this ripe intersection in my…

In which Popeye rules over Popilania and demands respeck.

Just a Public Service Announcement, here, but I recommend you ditch your SBC Global email account if you have one. Long story, but there's a good chance that (for weeks now) you're not getting email from some people. People like me. Even if I've written you many times before. And should you mention this to SBC they'll give you the runaround that it's being fixed. But it's not.  And in some cases I have no other way to reach you so I'm getting very frustrated that SBC are such A*holes because I'm not going to attempt to figure out all…

Blake Bell will discuss his Steve Ditko book, STRANGE & STRANGER, today at 2:00PM west coast time on CBC Radio. Listen here. Should be archived in a day or two as well.

Part One at the Daily Crosshatch. UPDATE: And now, Part Two, as well.

Courtesy Dave Cooper: 

Jeremy Eaton is selling all of his original art at half the going rate for one week only, including beautiful pieces like this one:    He's also previewing new work here.

Every day in July we're spotlighting books from our month-long Hidden Gems Sale, wherein we're featuring some of our under-the-radar backlist titles and encouraging you to try them by offering them at a nice discount of 25% off! Today's spotlight is on the artist known as Henriette Valium, who is also known as Montreal's "godfather of punk comics." Primitive Cretin Disgusting! Awesome! Baffling! Astounding! Hilarious! These are just a few of the adjectives that describe the hypnotically weird stories and artwork of Quebec cartoonist Henriette Valium, seen previously in several issues (and on one memorable cover) of Zero Zero. Amazingly,…

Blake Bell is the subject of Tom Spurgeon's weekly interview feature this morning, and it might be the best (and longest) interview with Blake that I've read yet. If you like Ditko, a must read.

Courtesy Pat McEown: