* Mark Bernardin on what to buy the writer in your life this holiday season. I know what he means about fetishizing notebooks -- I have a Moleskine I bought years ago that I've barely written in because it just feels and looks so awe-inspiring that I am afraid to make a wrong move in it.
* Tom Spurgeon begins his annual holiday interview series with the cartoonist Paul Pope. Pope isn't someone whose work has ever registered deeply with me for some reason, but it's a great interview, as Spurgeon's always are, especially at this time of the year.
* KC Carlson remembers growing up with Peanuts collections every holiday season. Observant fans of Charles M. Schulz will see which collection inspired Fantagraphics to pay homage to its design for the cover of The Unseen Peanuts a few years ago among the illustrations to the article.
* Grant Goggans reviews one of those gorgeous Mickey Mouse collections published by Fantagraphics.
* Paul Rudd playing Ant-Man fills me with almost exactly the same level of enthusiasm that Ryan Reynolds playing Green Lantern did.
* Frank Darabont, first showrunner for AMC's The Walking Dead, is suing the network. Not because of how very badly the show has sucked since he was dismissed, but because of financial shenanigans keeping him from cashing in on the show's success, which seems inversely proportional to its quality. Sign of the times: Check out the very last line of the story.
* In case you missed it, here's Sergio Aragones drawing everyone who ever worked at Mad Magazine.
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