* Two great items of Ron Rege Jr. news, courtesy of Jordan Crane: Yeast Hoist #15, which is part-minicomic, part-BEER, is now available for purchase; and all fourteen issues of the series up until that point will be going up on Crane’s What Things Do site eventually.
* Bon chance to altcomix lifer Rebecca Rosen as she departs Drawn & Quarterly for the amazingly even tonier comic-book confines of Le Dernier Cri and Delcourt. Always a welcome, welcoming face at shows!
* Geoff Grogan made a video for his excellent comic Fandancer.
* That’s Professor Jeffrey Brown to you, pal.
* Jeez, the Sharkticons. I barely remember Transformers: The Movie at all–my memory of unsuccessfully trying to go see it after some Sunday-afternoon soccer game is clearer than my memory of the movie itself, whenever the heck it was I actually did see it–but what stands out is the incandescent creepiness of the Sharkticons and those three-headed floaty guys and killing off the lead characters and all that stuff. Children’s entertainment did strange things to its audience back then.
* Mondo Tees is having a 30% off sale this weekend. They’re the people who have that series of shirts that combine metal-band logos with director names–Herzog/Danzig, Ingmar Bergman/Iron Maiden, De Palma/Def Leppard, etc. If you’ve ever wanted one, now’s the time!
Your childhood memories don’t involve obsessively rewatching Transformers: The Movie hundreds of times on the VHS you borrowed on a semi-permanent basis from the neighborhood video store? Weirdo!