Happy US Thanksgiving From The Comics Reporter

I'm a great believer in not working during certain local holidays, so I ask the forgiveness of readers at home with family looking for something to do and to those not in the US at all that today CR just sticks with the random round-up, the conventions column and the gathered US-Thanksgiving comics links above.

One thing I wonder about every so often is if comics doesn't have the downtime it used to, a thing I thought was a huge advantage to working in that industry although marketing people I'm sure want a 52-week push. I know that with our forthcoming holiday interview series that started 11 years ago, that was just a way to have content during a pretty dead holiday period. That period is stuffed with news now. The last two Christmas eves I received at least one item of breathless, could-have-sent-it-any-day-of-the-year PR. It's a different industry, and a different world.

I think we're also starting to see similar exhaustion in terms of cons and festivals, that there are so many now and the primetime Spring and Fall periods in particular make for exhausting five- to six-week runs if you want to do them all. People are being choosier. I haven't helped much there.

If you're reading this, you're likely a hardcore reader of the site, someone that plunges into the articles rather than waits for the site to break into your ongoing social media feed of information. This holiday, I'm particularly thankful for you. Celebrating the day or not, I wish you and your family the best.
 
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