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Drawn from sources that are full to the gills with news… Diesel Sweeties releases a ten-volume free collection edition under Creative Commons licensed. A study on the neuroscience of selling your stuff… ouch! If you haven’t noticed Project Wonderful has recently upgraded their charts to contain exact daily values. You can also now compare the performance of up [...]

Kevin Moore (that is I) has started a new story line called "Search Party" at Modern Tales this week. Come see how successful the farm animals will be in finding the lost Sheldon.

Also, the launch of a new story line coincides with the launch of a new website, wanderlostcomics.com. Come by and pay a visit. A couple pages are still under construction (alas, alack), but poke around, and leave a comment!

Gate Crash: And another step closer to actually being able to hunt down All Evil.

INTERVIEWS

Rick Marshall interviews Joey Comeau and Emily Horne of A Softer World.  Later Marshall, goes underground to report on illegal rock lobster fights.  That guy gets around!

Jovan Zimzovski interviews Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics while coincidently, Joey Comeau is hanging around. (h/t Journalista!)

The Daily Cartoonist links to a Universal Press interview with Jim Davis of its syndicated comic strip Garfield -- Scott Kurtz of PvP brings the drama in the comments that follow.

LEGAL KNIEVEL

8 Things I Hate Like About Service Agreements. (h/t Journalista!)

ART

Sean Kleefeld breaks down the linework in a classic Peanuts strip.

BUSINESS

Jason Poog interviews writer Donald Ray: part 1 on finding an agent and part 2 on how Ray quick his day job.  Both should be of interest to comics creators.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 3 BLOGS

Luke Foster on the puntastic comic strip Pearls Before Swine. (h/t Journalista!)

Cartoonist Shaenon Garrity hangs out with other members of the National Cartoonists Society.

Super-talented Jon Morris has been posting various alternate versions of Superman - check them out and then vote in his poll for which one you like best.

There's been a lot of cooking going on around the apartment this week, including a return to my homemade French Onion Soup recipe. It's essentially the Alton Brown/Food Network recipe, excepting that my 4 lbs of thinly sliced onions are mostly Vidalia, then one good sized red and a small sized white, and that I include a half dozen thinly sliced white mushrooms to the mix.

I’ve got another review up on the Comic Fencing site, this time for the high fantasy comic Tales of Pylea. Make sure to click around the site to see what the other reviewers thought! My Tales of Pylea review on Comic Fencing

So, after having spent the week showing off my Superman redesigns for the upcoming Project:Rooftop - Man of Style contest, the time has come to decide which one to submit.

Friday Round-Up!