* this seems like a story from another time, but it's still possible for a strip cartoonist to make up a newspaper client on the basis of a fan ask. Dana Simpson has some passionate young fans, that's for sure.
* here's Katie Skelly making it look -- well, not easy, because that's an insane production schedule for anyone keeping a full-time non-comics job like Skelly does.
* finally: new Graham Annable -- in comics, not animation -- on the way!
By Tom Spurgeon
