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Apologies for the late update -- technical difficulties and all that. This week's reviews:
• Joe McCulloch, AKA Jog , takes a good look at Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars
• Joe/Jog also looks at Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes
• Sequart examines Explainers by Jules Feiffer
• Retailer Mike Sterling says Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman is "all you need to know about the new comics coming in this week," and then promptly sells out of them ! Sequart looks at the issue too
• This week's coverage of Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell comes from Publishers Weekly , The Village Voice (second on the page), and Steve Bissette
• Black Heart Magazine reviews Ellen Forney's Lust
• French site Wart looks at Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
• We take 3 spots on this top-10 list at Creative Loafing (and 2 of those are Acme Novelty Library )
• Our Eric Reynolds is posting scans of our press clippings on his Flickr account
• Harry Allen appreciates The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
• The Forbidden Planet International blog looks at The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott (reposted from the Blank Slate Books blog )
• Flickr user jjohnshea not only poses his sweet-looking dog with Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees by Tony Millionaire and Chance in Hell by Gilbert Hernandez (among other books... and look, here's his other dog with The Frank Book by Jim Woodring), he reviews them too:
In other links...
• This guy scored some great stuff at our Summer Sidewalk Sale last weekend
• Richard Grayson has a great report from last Friday's Where Demented Wented book release event at Desert Island in Brooklyn
• Blake Bell has the hots for my wife and writes some other things about his Comic-Con experience
• Paul Hornschemeier posts a video of Jonathan Lethem and Daniel Clowes talkin' shop at MoCCA
• At Blog Flume , Ken Parille connects the dots between Swiss appropriationist Ugo Rondinone, Jason , and Carl Barks
• Also at Blog Flume , Jonathan Bennett presents the complete It Was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
• Are you keeping up with Amazing Facts... and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga , Ted May and Dan Zettwoch?
• In other webcomics news, Roger Langridge announces the temporary return of Fred the Clown
• Tim O'Shea interviews The Comics Journal Online Editor Dirk Deppey
• News To Me Dept: Hey, this Angry Youth Comix cover is based on this Li'l Abner paperback cover
• An amazing piece of original art by Michael Kupperman and the bitter story behind how it was acquired (via Sean T. Collins )
• Our own Kristy Valenti posts her Comic-Con 2008 wrap-up at ComicMix
• At Thought Balloonists , see photos of Jim Woodring at his Comic-Con spotlight panel and video of Jaime Hernandez sketching John Hancock for a fan at our Comic-Con booth
• Our own Larry Reid is quoted in this Los Angeles Times article about photographer Edward Colver
• Tim of Sparky Malarkey has a lot of our books on his shelves
• More Anders Nilsen sketchbook comics
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