This week in Audra Stang's STAR VALLEY -2008, you gotta ask... hey Oliver, why do you have an octopus under your shirt?

Kay Sohini reviews THE PARAKEET, the graphic memoir by Espé, published as a part of Penn State University Press' new Graphic Medicine imprint Graphic Mundi.

In this week's 55 COMICS from Ellen O'Grady, Ellen considers the connection between humans and the natural world.