A certain megalomaniac who will remain nameless lest we feed her already bloated ego recently sent out an email to god knows who, hyping the national tour (including a stop in Seattle tonight) supporting a book she edited. Note the humility evident in the priority of the first sentence: more ›

Previously on Seattlest we reported on the confrontation that took place on Christian talk radio station KGNW between the Seattle religious community and local cartoonist Brian Sendelbach over his allegedly outrageous Stranger cover illustration that seemed to mock the imminent deaths of the Pope and Terri Schiavo. But the conflict fizzled into disappointing anti-climax as Sendelbach charmed the interviewer and won approbations for his courage to talk on the air. The interviewer even hailed Sendelbach as a "stand up guy." more ›

The weekly newspapers we cover in "We Also Read the Weeklies" are by no means the only weekly newspapers worth reading in the city. There's only so much of the Seattlest review team to go around, after all, and there is a lot of quality media in Seattle to cover. Every once in a while something bubbles up from a paper outside of our weekly reading sphere that we've got to throw our $0.02 in on, though, or at least point out to reading public at large. more ›

Local self-proclaimed "publisher of the world's greatest cartoonists" Fantagraphics has a new issue of The Comics Journal (The 2005 Special Edition) out right now. There's some content from the manga-centric issue online---including web-exclusive art---enough to whet your appetite. Oh sure, you can read three friggin' pages on the history of the Japanese comic genre as a whole...which I'm sure is very important, given how well the stuff sells. But when it comes to juicer fare, they're a bunch of no-good teases. Just an excerpt of Adam Stephanides' examination of the violence and porn pervading Suehero Maruo's sophisticated work? We needs more. With that in mind, it might be worth a buy, if only to get one's arthouse-porn rocks off. more ›