* I'm sure there are cases where it is very much one person getting something which is then denied someone one, but Marc Bernardin is mostly right here in that most comics successes have a kind of solo integrity that doesn't really depend on someone failing.
* thoughts on publishing from Kevin Church and others. I always appreciate reading other folks' thoughts, but I'm always a bit confused by the certainty -- I don't know if that's an Internet mode, or a younger-person mode, or if I'm just a giant, hesitant heavebag now.