Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital

By Tom Spurgeon

* Bully on hiatus. I realize this is a highly nuanced area of cultural appreciation, but I've enjoyed watching the various long-time on-line commentators deal with the sheer length of time they've been doing this -- whether that's a shift in focus, leaving altogether or some time off. It's not hard like heart surgery or working in a foundry, but the drip drip drip aspect of supplying content for years and years has its specific difficulties.

* Gary Tyrrell goes over a bunch of issues, including what's been going on with Chris Onstad.

* Aaron Scott profiles C. Spike Trotman. Joshua Barajas profiles Kate Beaton.

* finally, congratulations to Tom Bondurant on his long with his "Grumpy Old Fan" column. That was a very old-school column in shape and tone, the kind of thing that could have run in a 1970s or 1980s fanzine with names and titles swapped in. I wonder if all of those similar columns are on their last legs as social media further dismantles the idea of reading large amounts of text regularly presented to us in roughly the same manner as a print publication might. I hope CBR finds a way to streamline Bondurant's voice into the bulk of what they do, if that's in the cards.
 
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