ALL THINGS COUNTER, ORIGINAL, SPARE, AND FILLED WITH NINJAS: Dappled Things’ Feast of Sts Peter and Paul issue is available online here!–a very cool Catholic literary and cultural magazine, which had the dubious taste to publish one of my stories.

And friend of this blog Joshua Elder writes to say that the first volume of his manga, Mail-Order Ninja, is available in comics shops and bookstores now. (Or here, for example.) It is about a kid who orders a ninja in the mail. The short piece on which it was based won an award from Tokyopop and is lots of fun….