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The love train for Dash Shaw's BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON has embarked as the book should be hitting comic shops this week. Largehearted Boy and BoingBoing follow-up the Comics Reporter's enthusiastic review last week with equally kind words.

I'm told this appears in a new Marvel comic called 1985, presumably set in more innocent times. Since I don't really know much more about this, I don't even have a comment except that I can't help but "hear" the dialogue in the voices of Comic Book Guy and Milhouse from the Simpsons. "Why, that is a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore."  

Apologies to Kirby and Fairey. 

  I picked this old dime novel up at a second-hand store years ago for the comics connection and excellent cover and back cover:     At the time, I didn't even look inside, but the book includes about two dozen strips near the end that help solve the book's mystery: The book is written by Jack Iams, whom I know nothing about, and is from Dell Publishing in 1948. Iams acknowledges a few comics-related folk in his 'Author's Notes': 'Acknowledgments' sounds unduly pompous in front of a murder mystery, but I would like to give credit for several assists,…

The Art of Peter Baggewith Mats!? & J.R. Williams Opening First Thursday, June 5th When: Thursday, June 5, 6:00pm – 9:00pm thru June 27Where: Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave., Portland, OR   UPDATE: Peter won't be at the opening on the 5th. (although JR and Mats!? will be) but he will be at the closing ceremony on the 27th of June!      

Courtesy our excellent intern, Alexa. 

Listen to your mothers: patience is a virtue. If you submit something to Fantagraphics at a convention over a weekend, do not start calling us on Monday morning to find out how much we liked it and to ask when your contract will go in the mail because we've likely been busy enough working a con and keeping up with our lives to have read your comic yet (we may have even brought home other comics that we also want to read, and we might not be able to read all of those by  Monday morning, either, go figure!). Do…

 … BIZARRO GARY!