Planet of the APE: Publishers Weekly chimes in with an uncharacteristically long roundup of last month's Alternative Press Expo. The article briefly touches on the usual suspects -- Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, Top Shelf, Slave Labor, AiT/Planet Lar, Oni Press -- and dubs Paul Hornschemeier (Mother, Come Home) as the convention's "breakout artist."

PW wraps up its APE coverage with a glance into the crystal ball:

"The chatter at APE suggested that, with old-fashioned comics pamphlets rapidly declining as a medium for art or literary cartooning, future stars may make their name initially in anthologies like the Granta-style paperback series that Fantagraphics is just starting to put together. Comics' ongoing intersection with the art world looks promising, too: Last Gasp Distribution's booth featured Raw, Boiled and Cooked: Comics on the Verge, a new exhibition catalogue copublished with the Maryland Institute College of Art."