The Daily Cross Hatch » Cross Hatch Dispatch 7/31/2007

Cross Hatch Dispatch 7/31/2007

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