Random Comics News Story Round-Up * Daniel Schindel on Gumballs.
* Jeet Heer writes about the rougher side of Harlan Ellison's legacy, from a bit of a different perspective in that Heer seems fairly behind the curve on lavishing the late author's best prose work with praise. He discusses the 2006 Fantagraphics lawsuit which as the author whose two books were in question I see as baseless rather than frivolous. The fact I wasn't sued was definitely a sign of the squirrelly nature of what was going on there for sure, no matter what you think was going on.
* CR wishes a full and hearty congratulations to John and Sandra at Metaphrog for this appreciation of their 23 years of making comics. They are a hard-working and devoted pair, with the results to match. Give them all the awards.
* Daniel Schindel on 
