* not comics: I'm happy for cartoonists I like to get deals in other media they want and are interested in doing -- and hey, these look fun -- but my primary interest as a comics reporter is in keeping track of Gary Tyrrell's idea that comics are the new stand-up: a low-threshold performance art that will drive talented people to other, more profitable media for the next 20 years.
* bundled extra: happy to see Greg Stump's Disillusioned Illusions, which was essentially a handmade and distributed comic in its most recent iteration -- will get a bump up in public profile via an edition with FU Press. Stump is a deeply funny cartoonist, and I don't know anyone who does comics quite like he does: more Donald Barthelme than Donald Duck.
* look at this cool Jim Osborne comic. Osborne is one of the many artists in the underground tradition that has almost no penetration into our general knowledge of comics. I hope that the undergrounds have a more comprehensive legacy in 2050 than they have right this moment, but it's going to be tough.
* Paul Buhle on 
