Not Comics: A Pair Of Articles At NYMag.com

* occasional cartoonist K. Thor Jensen has a nice article up here about twitter-bots employed to both reinforce a political candidate and kind of surf the wave created by the size of the audience for each individual tweet.

* in case you had any doubts that the kind of exploitation you've seen throughout comics history is the same kind of exploitation that goes on with other media, check out the sweet deal BuzzFeed creates for itself by dangling the carrot of making its young content creators stars with access to Hollywood leverage. Comics-makers don't have a union, either, but they also for now have enough publishers not working from a deep history of exploiting talent for creators to have a choice: some choosing not to work for those companies, others secure that the other options keep the traditional companies from getting too crazy.
 
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