* not comics: this is adorable. Chris Schweizer makes the comics that I wanted to read when I was a kid after watching movies like Johnny Tremain and 1776.
* here's another call for papers, from an outsider's perspective a bit lighter even than most comics-related calls for papers, but I'm sure the scholarship involved is very serious and potentially enlightening just like any other academic inquiry.
* Ben Yakas visits with Al Jaffee. It's been interesting that Jaffee has taken on the grand older statesman of comics role in terms of these kinds of profiles. After Joe Kubert passed away I figured the only popular figure in comics people would talk about from that point forward would be Stan Lee.