TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:

The Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog brings us some interesting tutorials on composition from Andrew Loomis’s out-of-print Creative Illustration book. They also provide instructions for getting all of Loomis’s books for free online as pdfs.

• Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars
  from Wired Science
• X Doesn’t Mark the Spot
  from news from me
• The 10 Newspaper Comic Strips that Need to F**king End
  from Topless Robot
• The 7 Greatest Apes of All Time
  from Topless Robot
• The 10 Dumbest Avengers Moments Stan Lee Ever Wrote
  from Topless Robot
• The 10 Greatest and Most Pathetic Old-School Halloween Costumes
  from Topless Robot
• 30 Years of the Madness, Evil and Torture of the Star Wars Holiday Special
  from Topless Robot
• The 8 Most Underrated Muppets
  from Topless Robot
• DICK TURPIN EL AUDAZ ENMASCARADO
  from Viñetas
• TEX EL REY DE LAS DOS PISTOLAS
  from Viñetas
• Latest from Gitmo: Judge Orders Release of Five Detainees
  from ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can’t Blog Itself
• JUAN CENTELLA
  from Viñetas
• MAC: The Lo Fi Guy
  from PCL LinkDump
• Christian World Conquest
  from My[confined]Space
• Working with Chinese Ink
  from webcomics.com
• Comic Book Creator Index to Mr. Media Interviews
  from Mr. Media
• What will the parents think of this…
  from MetaFilter
• Filmography: Reiniger’s Prince Achmed, The First Animated Feature
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• finally found it: mystery item- did Charles Burns make this mask?
  from new bodega
• The Interview: “Watchmen’s” Dave Gibbons
  from Comic Riffs
• Challenged ballots
  from kottke.org
• Feast for Your Eyes
  from ThadBlog
• Gallery: Apes paint to save their fellows
  from New Scientist – Online News
• Go, Look: James Kochalka Art Show
  from CR Briefings
• Go, Look: Amazing Spider-Maps
  from CR Briefings
• Ants’ Metropolis
  from Dark Roasted Blend
• Maggot Therapy, Six Pounds of Groin, an “Assistance Kangaroo”
  from Weird Universe
• Blog@ Q&A: Ivan Brunetti
  from Blog@Newsarama
• Creative Illustration: Composition
  from Temple of the Seven Golden Camels
• The 7 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Deaths
  from Cracked: All Posts
• Free to Be… You and Me: the 35 Anniversary Edition
  from Boing Boing
• Post-Apocalyptic Dreams
  from transatlantis
• Nov. 20, 2008: The Dark Knight strikes out
  from Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal
• Betty gets her act cleaned up and Popeye is humbled
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Famous Fantastic Mysteries* 83 issues ~ Oct/1939
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Coraline Site Up
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• Oh, My Goodness
  from Scott Saavedra’s Comic Book Heaven
• My Secret
  from Scott Saavedra’s Comic Book Heaven
• CBH Golden Age Sale Part One!
  from Scott Saavedra’s Comic Book Heaven
• EL INFIERNO, POR GUSTAVE DORÉ
  from Comics en extinción:
• TESTIMONIO: UN DÍA (DE MUERTOS) EN LA VIDA DEL PROFESOR GAFAPASTA
  from Tras las turquesas cortinas
• HOJAS SECAS III
  from Tras las turquesas cortinas
• Skitzy!!
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• Pygmy Tarsiers Re-discovered in Indonesia
  from Boing Boing
• Alvino Rey and his anthropomorphic guitar puppet
  from Boing Boing
• Google Hosts LIFE Photo Collection
  from Google Operating System
• Dave Gibbons and the Creation of Watchmen
  from Publishers Weekly – Comics News
• The Boy Pirate
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Long-lost ‘Furby-like’ Primate Discovered In Indonesia
  from Monkeys In The News