Omega the now slightly less unknown: NPR’s Laurel Maury on Jonathan Lethem and company’s version of Omega The Unknown, which was, in my humble opinion, probably the very best capes and tights book of the last year, so I’m quite glad to see any mainstream coverage it gets.
Cavalcade of Canadian comic and cartoon coverage: Editor & Publisher on a little non-FBOW Lynn Johnston drawing, Walrus magazine on Albert Chartier’s Une piquante petite brunette and Dave Lapp’s Drop-In, and the complete list of eligible creators for the 2008 Joe Shuster awards (for English language publications).
That means Snowy is 560 in dog years: Today is Tintin’s 80th birthday, so Reuters checks in on the state of his empire, and the BBC ponders how his popularity varies from country to country, asking, “So how come, as Tintin approaches 80, like Johnny Halliday, but unlike Jacques Brel, he’s a famous Belgian who has not yet managed to woo the US?” Wait, Johnny who now?
