* this post about Mell Lazarus writing a joke in advance of his death for publication after he passed away is pretty funny. A Mensa member and advocate, Lazarus was always a smart one.
* not comics: there's probably a line of analysis that could springboard from here about the likelihood of the younger generation engaging with comic shops, but mostly the institutional millennial hate continues to be weird and sort of funny.
* finally, MIchael Cavna looks at the treatment of Aleppo by editorial cartoonists given movement on that story in the last few days of 2016.
* Joe Gordon on 
