[Above, Matthew Loux's least Kosher panel, ever. Below, rock Dispatch.]

• Matthew Loux’s hit all-ages comic series Salt Water Taffy has finally joined us on the Interwebs with the launch of a shiny new Website.  Loux will premier a new comic strip online every other week until the launch of Salt Water Taffy Volume 3: The Truth About Dr. True, and will keep fans updated on news, reviews, events and exclusive sneak-peeks.
• Recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Breen, has won the Overseas Press Club’s Thomas Nast Award for editorial cartooning, noting his “strong graphics, subtle messages and a sense of fun…”
• P. Craig Russell offers some sweet peekage of his cover sketches for Sandman: The Dream Hunters on his blog.
• Pulitzer-winner and former cartoonist for the Oregonian and the Newark News,  Lucius “Lute” Pease, apparently left 19 original drawings in the  storage room of Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon.
• Jeffrey Brown chats it up about his new autobiographical book, Funny Misshapen Body, with Newsarama’s  Zack Smith.
• Kate Beaton, Robbi Behr, Emmanuel Guibert, Chad Parmenter and Matthew Swanson will engage in a free-to-attend roundtable discussion on the “new literature of graphic narrative” at the Rose O’Neill Literary House in Chestertown, MD on April 26.
• The Beat shouts out a new comic-book-based site,  Comic Book Critics, which collects reviews of various comics and then assigns them a score from 1-10 based on the consensus.
• Aspiring comic-bookers, rejoice! UK-based publisher Insomnia Publications is currently looking for submissions from writers, artists, colorists and letterers.
• Cocktail Napkin Art acknowledges art that often times goes unappreciated by the majority of the art community – i.e. drunken bar sketches. The only art I usually receive on cocktail napkins are phone numbers from sloppy, inebriated men. ZING!
• Drawn + Quarterly’s Montreal 211 Bernard Ouest store has announced the dates for their highly anticipated Silkscreen Workshop for May 4th, 11th and 18th, for just 100 Canadian bucks (which should translate to about even for the U.S. dollar nowadays, right?).
• The Random House blog Suvudu gives us a categorical “Eisner Shakedown,” a look at the Eisner Awards nominees, starting with the contenders for Best Cover Artist.

–Adri Cowan