This past Monday, artist Minck Oosterveer passed away tragically and unexpectedly. Boom! Studios is honoring the late artist and his work by offering all of his work with writer Mark Waid on The Unknown and The Unknown: Devil Made Flesh for free download. All of Boom!'s digital partners, including  comiXology, iVerse, Graphicly, and mydigitalcomics, are offering the books for free right now. Check them out and help keep this talented artist's creative work alive. Rest in peace, Minck.

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Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi's The Chill took home the prize for Best Graphic Novel during the Anthony Awards, held this weekend at Bouchercon in St. Louis. The annual convention is a celebration of the mystery genre. Other nominees in the category were Beasts of Burden by Jill Thompson and Evan Dorkin, Richard Stark's Parker, Vol.

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This Sunday, September 11, as everyone recalls, marks the 10th anniversary of the most terrible terrorists attacks ever to occur on American soil. The Sunday papers will feature a special tribute on the comics pages, with 93 comics strips taking part. At New York's MoCCA, original and production artwork from 12 of the strips is currently on display. Look for the strips in this Sunday's paper and check out the MoCCA exhibit in New York if you have a chance!

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Congratulations to Daniel Clowes for winning the "Outstanding Body of Work in Graphic Lit" award from PEN Center USA. Clowes was being recognized for an amazing body of work that includes Ghost World, David Boring, The Death-Ray, Mister Wonderful, and Wilson. Clowes will win a $1,000 prize, and a ceremony celebrating the award will take place in November. Congratulations, Dan! Well deserved!

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Just a reminder that today is the day DC releases Flashpoint #5 and Justice League #1, the title that kicks off the DC relaunch. Many retailers held many parties to celebrate the releases (I heard from my friend Wayne Winsett of Time Warp Comics and Games in Boulder, Colorado, that his store's midnight event went quite well).

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Five major syndication bureaus, representing some 93 comic strips appearing in newspapers across the country, will see their clients turn their Sunday, September 11, strips into a tribute to the 10th anniversary of the most horrible terrorist attacks ever on American soil. The comics-page tributes will be a major remembrance of the day, and after September 11, all of them will be printed on cartoonistsremember911.com.

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Roz Chast is a woman of few words, but her hilarious comic images speak volumes. In her latest book, What I Hate: A to Z, the renowned New Yorker cartoonist details, alphabetically, the things that sometimes keep her up at night and other times get her mind to wandering—and that includes a bizarre Jell-O dessert incident that continues to haunt her to this day.

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The Harvey Awards were handed out over the weekend at the Baltimore Comic-Con! Congratulations to all the nominees and especially the winners. Here's a great lineup of graphic works published recently. All are worth checking out!

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I'm about halfway through with Craig Thompson's new graphic novel, Habibi, right now. The book is slated for release September 20, but I was lucky enough to get a galley. At more than 650 pages, Habibi is not a quick, short read, and the fact that it is so incredibly, jaw-droppingly amazing is forcing me to take my time with this one.

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Williams-Sonoma is now offering Marvel Comics bakeware (seriously! You can get Spider-Man cookie cutters and Avengers cupcake decorations and more). As if this wasn't exciting enough, tomorrow--Saturday, August 20--you can personally decorate cookies the Marvel way at Williams-Sonoma stores, and, even better, it's for a good cause. A $5 donation will secure two cookies and benefit Share Our Strength's No Child Hungry campaign. You will also get a free Marvel comic with all that.

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