Go, Read: Array of Quality Features

For some reason, today was all about more significant than usual features:

* It should come as no surprise that Stan Sakai of the extremely well crafted and highly entertaining comics series Usagi Yojimbo makes extremely well crafted and highly entertaining con reports, too. His latest is on the recent seven-day Japan Expo in Paris.

* The Forbidden Planet International Blog has posted an engrossing interview with Ramallah-based cartoonist illustrator and cartoonist Katie Miranda.

* Two fairly major art-driven previews: 1) From Jeff Smith's The Art of Bone, which is interesting in that Smith isn't doing it himself, Bone doesn't have a ton of supplementary material, and I'm not really aware that Dark Horse has done a ton of such books. Smith talks about his personal reaction to seeing the book here. 2) From Flight Vol. 4, the latest in a series of books that have been the main mover in a mini-trend for animators and illustrators to kind of reach into comics and do some work there. That may seem pretty common now, but it's certainly something that didn't happen a whole lot of the time 10-15 years ago.

* Matthias Wivel posts a fine, unpublished 1999 article comparing and contrasting David Mazzucchelli's lauded "Big Man" short story with Alex Toth's 1975 Warren Publishing effort "Daddy and the Pie."
 
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