* not comics: grateful to see Kazu Kibuishi wrap up his Harry Potter illustration work with the last cover and the boxed set; I thought he did a nice job with that gig as much as I have any sort of refined feel for that kind of material. These hand-engraved covers for a different set of Potter books are super-nice. It make sense that there would be multiple versions of a series like that, with art used as a distinguishing characteristic. I still have my 1960s Tolkien hardcovers that I got as a kid, and I've never seen an edition I liked more.
* one of the great joys of the on-line world right now is how much original art gets posted and gets paid attention to if it's already been posted because of the desire of certain collectors, creators and comics fans to produce links and scans as part of their on-line presence. Tom Palmer inking Gene Colan was always pretty interest. Sinnott and Palmer were the two guys that did a ton of inking where the pages and covers were powerful in a way that aided rather than distracted from really good pencil-artists.
* Richard Bruton on 
