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While we're on deadline with another story, you might enjoy, courtesy of iFanboy, The Vince Coletta Letter:

Season Three/Episode Three: It Hurts Me Too It hurts me to tell you what you already know - this recap is late.  Let’s just say...

The annual American LIbrary Association wrapped up its annual meeting yesterday and, as the above photo suggests, there was abundant graphic novel programming and presence. Our own Torsten Adair was there, and he blogged of many things, like the Dabel Brothers new imprint, Sea Lion Press:

We've mentioned book bloggers a few times lately, and contrasted their peaceful, herbivore ways with the violent, predatory jungle of comics blogging. Now here's a VERY direct comparison -- and also some interesting market research type stuff -- via the Graphic Novels Challenge. This is a blogging program in which book bloggers try to read a bunch of graphic novels in a given period -- one of a series of similar challenge for memoirs, history books or whatever. Most of the bloggers are not trained-from-birth comics experts and heir comments are illuminating. The list is also high on "litereary" and young adult comics -- not very much Marvel or DC. They also check books to read out of the library, so they are not "Wednesday" Crowd" much.

Well, it was a rough weekend. But we can take a little solace in enjoying the great Lorenzo Mattoti's soccer comic. Alè Tran Tran,...

It all started when Johanna explained Why I Won’t Be Giving to Kickstarter Projects, citing the belief that creators should have a business plan...

Letterer supreme Todd Klein presents another one of his logo studies, this time looking at the HULK logo through time from Herb Trimpe's previously unknown contribution through the modern "exploded logos" worthy of Zaha Hadid.

Cartoonist Ward Suttonlooks at the recent Batman XXX movie via the healing medium of funny drawings.

This week: World Cup drama, comic-book direct-market retail drama, Dan DiDio comedy, a comic so awful that the New York Times reports on it, and a couple of Kurt Busiek books worth your time.

TCAF, karaoke, comics. BTW, renditions of "Living on a Prayer" are why we avoid most karaoke outings! Just sayin'.

Four guys walked into a bar and decided to write a comic about Glenn Danzig & Henry Rollins... as lovers. Tom Neely answers a few questions on behalf of Igloo Tornado about Henry & Glenn Forever.