Last Friday of the Year News Update (UPDATED)

HEADLINES

• Both the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun covers the charity Childs Play started by the Penny Arcade duo. I just checked the site and they may clear $900,000 in donations by the end of this year. Wow. That's an amazingly good thing.
• Tim Buckley posted a couple of videos showing the entire process of him creating Christmas art for his webcomic Ctrl-Alt-Del (as Buckley says the action is "sped up 600%"). Man I really want a Cintiq…

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

• Image Comics' Nightly News #1 is online for free.

INTERVIEWS

• Newsarama interviews T Campbell and Amy Mebberson about Divalicious their new comic book for Tokyopop. (link from Journalista!)
• An interview with Stephen Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine: lawyer, cartoonist, Renaisance Man!

REVIEWS

• A review of Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese at Monsters and Critics. (link from Journalista!)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Here's an effort to link up cross-overs between webcomics in a sort of "one-world" kind of way.
• Wax Intellectual talks about comedy in comics.
• Ask Slave Labor Graphics publisher Dan Vado questions about the comics biz.
• Kris Straub explains how to submit your own version of Time Friends.