• NPR recommends Mark Kalesniko's Mail Order Bride to "see you through your turkey coma"

• Kevin Church describes John Kerschbaum's Petey & Pussy as "sort of a Chuck Jones retelling of The Aristocrats"

• I Love Rob Liefeld looks at Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga

• Pol Culture examines Popeye Vol. 3 by E.C. Segar

• The Comics Reporter looks at The Lagoon by Lilli Carré

• Wart might be calling Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw the best graphic novel of the year; the Google translation from French is a little confusing... but they certainly like it

• Tom Kaczynski's "Doodle Dump"

Mome Vol. 13 - Winter 2009
By various artists; edited by Gary Groth & Eric Reynolds

The latest issue of the 2008 Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz Award-nominee features the first chapter (of three) of an all-new graphic novel by superstar Freak Brothers creator Gilbert Shelton! Thomas Ott (The Number), Josh Simmons (House), David Greenberger (Duplex Planet) and rising minicomics star Laura Park all make their MOME debuts. Bottomless Belly Button creator Dash Shaw delivers an all-new story, "Satellite CMYK", and creates this issue's covers. Also featured: Tim Hensley, Kurt Wolfgang, Nate Neal, Sara Edward-Corbett and Derek Van Gieson.

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• The Times' list of recommended graphic novels for Christmas includes Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories by Jason, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott, and Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw

• PLAYBACK:stl looks at Amor Y Cohetes and Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers

• Chris Diaz uploads more photos from APE 2008

• Meathaus has a teaser of a forthcoming animated music video co-created by Dave Cooper

• Sketchbook comics from Tom Kaczynski

• A short Beasts! review

• Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Hensley covered in Post-It notes

• Dash Shaw's animated trailer for Bottomless Belly Button is now available to watch on ComicBookTrailers.com (in addition to on our own site)

• Speaking of Bottomless Belly Button, Matthew Brady takes a good look at the book

• Congratulations and good luck to Linda Medley for being named a finalist (and the only American on the list) for the Prix de la Critique 2008 by the Association des Critiques et Journalistes de Bande Dessinée for Château l'Attente, the French edition of Castle Waiting

• More stunning sketchbook pages from Anders Nilsen

• Austin English has some very nice things to say about Lilli Carré's The Lagoon

• Ellen Forney has some bad-ass Brazilian jiu-jitsu desktop wallpaper for you to download

• Stickers and Donuts declares "Ray Fenwick is my boyfriend"

• Brian Ralph asks: "Did Charles Burns make this mask?" Note: Pee-Wee Herman is involved

• The Stranger has lunch with The Lagoon by Lilli Carré

• On Blog Flume, Ken Parille offers critical counterpoint to some of Blake Bell's analysis of Steve Ditko's later work in Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko

• Vitrola looks at Explainers by Jules Feiffer (in Portugese; Google translation here)

• The San Antonio Current looks at Mome Vol. 12, Krazy & Ignatz 1943-1944, and Comic Arf

• I Love Rob Liefeld reviews Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw

• Your comics-icons-mashup street art of the day

Congratulations are also in order to Dash Shaw and Jaime Hernandez for their books, The Bottomless Belly Button and The Education of Hopey Glass(respectively), being named to Publishers Weekly's Best Graphic Novels of the Year list. 

Congratulations to Dash Shaw for his graphic novel, The Bottomless Belly Button, being named #4 on Amazon.com's editors' list of Best Graphic Novels of 2008. The book also made Amazon's Top 100 books of the year, coming in at #78. 

• BBC News talks to Zippy the Pinhead creator (and, next week, Seattle visitor) Bill Griffith (streaming audio)

• Austin English poses 20 questions to Dash Shaw

• Blog Flume looks at Charles Schulz's use of punctuation in Peanuts

• More sketchbook pages from Anders Nilsen

• The Deconstructing Comics podcast talks about I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks

• Publishers Weekly's "Comics Week" newsletter reviews Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham

• The Daily Cross Hatch posts the third and final part of their interview with Dash Shaw

• Roger Langridge presents some Spongebob Squarepants strips he drew for Nickelodeon magazine in the styles of Winsor McCay, George Herriman, Milton Caniff, Charles M. Schulz and others