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[Above,  Kevin Church's and Benjamin Birdie's "The Rack" gets feisty . Below, the Dispatch.]

• Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie will debut the first print collection of  the comic shop-based webcomic, The Rack, at the upcoming MoCCA extravanganza in June.
• Courtesy of Comics Worth Reading, NPR has posted their summer reading list and *gasp* included some great indie
• Literary-arts mag GIGANTIC Sequins is looking for cover art for their next issue, deadline June 30.
• Valerie D’Orazio has a new column at Comixology called COMICS-OP, and the first edition is up now.
• Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald discuss the presence of comics and graphic novels at this weekend’s BookExpo America  - which I will be attending, thankyouverymuch.
• In other BookExpo America news, the CBLDF is kicking off the convention with its own welcome shindig at Hudson Terrace in NYC tomorrow, May 28.
• On May 30 in Bellingham, MA, Scott Wegener (Atomic Robo) will be signing at Friendly Neighborhood Comics.

- Adri Cowan