Deadlines, Deadlines, All On A Deadline
* the referring committee of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly will vote today on the youth ordinance once thought dead but now believe a very real threat to the unfettered publication of manga and creation of anime for Tokyo audiences. The full assembly will vote on Wednesday. In the meantime, a group of publishers have boycotted that city's anime fair.
* entries for the $5000 scholarship named after the late strip editor and underground comix historian Jay Kennedy must be postmarked December 15.