TWC News with ADD

* Looks like Jog is taking his weekly rundown of the week's interesting new comics to Comics Comics. Good match, as Jog has pretty much the best taste in the blogosphere and Comics Comics is a place where the best comics are frequently under discussion.

* Also at Comics Comics, and I know I am late to the party on this, Tim Hodler weighs in with some observations on the new Art of Jaime Hernandez book published by Abrams (our own Marc Sobel already posted a response). Not much to add, other than that the cropping issue is much ado about nothing -- as mentioned in the comments, it's limited mostly to non-Hernandez art and done for a good reason, and having now read the book I can tell you it is on of the best-designed (by Jordan Crane) comics-related art books you will ever hold in your hands. Big kudos to Abrams, Crane and author Todd Hignite on creating a real treasure for the ages for Jaime fans. And yes, we need a Gilbert followup ASAP, thanks!

* Johanna Draper Carlson checks in on the latest in the Nick Simmons plagiarism controversy. Comments on the post now approaching 100. Egad. The guy is obviously a thief, he should man up and admit it.

* Chris Butcher is once again liveblogging Previews. Always entertaining to see how the smartest shop manager in the Direct Market approaches the ongoing disaster that is the Previews catalog.

* Commercial interruption: I am auctioning off a nice lot of new, unread books by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (both together and separately), so if you would like to grab a large amount of their work way below cover price, click over to the eBay and have a look.