It's been almost a week since the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund announced its newest case, and the reaction from comicsdom assembled has been... well, interesting. I talk about it here in Why We Must Support Gordon Lee.
For your reading and viewing pleasure Mark Siegel, editorial director of the heavily anticipated First Second graphic novel line, provides his spy report on Angouleme 2005 heavily illustrated with photographs like the one above. Thank you, Mark.
I hope you'll forgive me a more-personal note: I agreed last Thursday to provide an afterword for this book supporting the cartoonist William Messner-Loebs in his recent period of economic misfortune. Mark Evanier even recommends it. Dave Sim is doing the introduction. Messner-Loebs is known as one of the most esteemed members of the post-underground indy comics generation for his frontier comic Journey and was for an extended period one of the more skilled writers working in mainstream American comic books.
