* here's how to submit work to the divisional awards given out by the National Cartoonists Society during the Reubens ceremony over Memorial Day weekend. I don't see why you wouldn't want to submit work if you're inclined and qualify. It may not be first graph of your obituary material, but it's in there.
* I'm just now catching up to this report, that says that the Child's Play charity manned by Team Penny Arcade raised over $2 million in 2010. That's great.
* missed it: Sarah Morean would like a word with you about MIX 2011, if you're willing to spare it. The show will be November 5-6 this year. It's the curatorial aspect of the show that she wants to bring to your attention, here, and is likely going to be the most-discussed aspect of the show heading into its second year.
* not comics: no injuries reported on the Kampung Boy musical. I read something in a New Yorker that intrigued about the Spider-Man show, incidentally. I had forgotten this, but Lion King was sort of a disaster during previews, too, and it came together at the very end. That explains some of this producing team's stubbornness.
* Marvel.com runs an interview with recently-promoted Senior Editor Nick Lowe. I always like the aspirational aspects communicated through those kinds of interviews.
* Matthias Wivel writes at greater length about a strike in the offices of publisher L'Association, which was apparently instigated by a forthcoming move that would have made redundant about half of the admittedly modest-sized office personnel. This should be one that we continue to track and depending on how interesting it is should be part of the general conversation at Angouleme.
* this is sort of a stretch, but Michael Chabon's post here about returning to hip-hop using his return to comics as an example touches on an idea that I find fascinating, the notion that people that have intermittent or even largely vacant relationships with comics are as important to comics' long-term development as an art form as the people that buy every comic book they can and know about dozens more.
* not comics: the kickstarter fundraising effort on behalf of a film about Jeffrey Jones has a lot of catching up to do. I'd love to see the finished result, but I literally have no money budgeted for this kind of thing right now. Many of you might, though, which is why I'm mentioning it here.
* finally, a tribute to retailer Stan Reed. Longtime retailers that serve you well are definitely on that same chart of under-appreciated things in life, with music teachers and coaches.
* Douglas Wolk 
