* Chris Butcher looks at Viz bringing Kazuo Umezo's Cat-Eyed Boy to American audience, including a comparison of how the new North American book will look compared to the original.
* there have been a lot of reviews of David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague, many of which have been linked to via this site's quick hit entries, but for obvious reasons I like this one by Louis Menand for The New Yorker where he compares it to Bart Beaty's excellent Frederic Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture. I'm not sure why more people haven't done this -- Beaty's book really goes at the prevailing wisdom regarding Wertham and what he was doing.
* speaking of the New Yorker, they also covered the recent More Old Jewish Comedians event at the Friars Club.
* the reign of terror -- on Marvel's plot details as well as the sensibilities of anyone older than 30 who wishes they could routinely punch self-entitled young people in the face -- by Marvel b0y seems to be over.
* Family Treehas lost one of its (I'm guessing initial) clients.
* ActuaBD.com talks to Marjane Satrapi about her next comic and how it felt to be on the road that long in support of her movie.
* Chris Butcher 
