* so a long time ago we promised to pay attention to Meredith Gran's Patreon campaign to see how valid it might be for a working cartoonist to turn her fans into perpetual support for serial work. I would say that level of support makes it a success.
* finally, the writer Johanna Draper Carlson has a succinct write up of Vertical's digital Tezuka initiative here and notes an on-line offering of an already-exsiting Ed Piskor project.