Celebrity news ahead!!!

• Move over Scientology. Comics saved Avril Lavigne, Neil Young, Nicholas Cage and son Weston Cage, Jenna Jameson, and Hollywood scriptwriters.
• Ron Regé, Jr. does Kenneth Patchen at the Poetry Foundation.
• Andy Hartzell uses the power of blogging for good. He discusses his appreciation of Kim Deitch in this entry.
• Laura Park meets Tom Eaton. Can you spot it?
• I’m not aware of any news about Jason Shiga, but for those with a burning curiosity, here is a great guide to his work, a place where you can buy his 500 page Knock Knock, and his myspace in which he references a comics get you laid moment in True Romance.
• Same Hat presents a scanlation of the manga Abstraction by Shintaro Kago in all of its warped glory.
• Adrian Tomine inkjob. (via Drawn & Quarterly)
• Comics recently posted on the Ephemerist: Emily Flake’s Smoke Break, David Axe‘s and Mike Bors‘ East timor Is A Riot, and Johnny Ryan‘s recent *ahem* tribute to Arthur Miller‘s Death of a Salesman, and Cowboy Henk taking Superman’s outfit for a ride.
• Read Express has an interview with Cathy Malkasian about Gloom.

—Elizabeth Chou