The Cross Hatch Dispatch 2/05/08

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Kevin Colden

[Above, Kevin Colden does the Zuda, the dance sensation that’s sweeping the nation. Below, the Dispatch two-step.]

  • Fantagraphics Books launches their new site. Two years in the making, the site trumps it predecessor in every way.
  • More news from Fantagraphics. On Saturday February 9th, from 6-9 PM, the publisher will host the opening reception for cartoonist Ellen Forney’s Lust: Kinky Online Personnel Ads from Seattle’s The Stranger.
  • Entertainment Weekly talks with Brian K. Vaughn about the end of Y: The Last Man.
  • Sacrebleu! The third Asterix film is a hit a France.  The movie grossed 4.1M. By France’s standards, that’s a lot.
  • Jeff Lemire’s Essex County: Tales From the Farm wins an Alex Award. The awards are given to notable adult books with specific teen appeal.

–Jason Owen