Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* not comics: this was an encouraging article if you're an old-time newspaper fan, and I'm a great supporter in general of small-town newspapers (my father once owned a couple). I would imagine that if that model will continue to work they'll work from a combination of providing news as mentioned in the piece and the fact that they offer a stripped-down cost model that makes a lot more sense than the loaded-up newspapers you get further up the population chain. That's the major reason I would agree with this guy that a big magazine employing an on-line pay model using outdated technology is really doomed to fail: its costs too much for a big company like that to make something that will support itself, let alone support a magazine. It's not always about the impossibility of pay. (I'd also disagree with his assertion that no one holds onto material; my hunch is that a lot of specialty on-line sites and providers do this because they're wary of overwhelming their limited-time readerships -- it doesn't help to put a ton of content up if no one's willing to stay on your site -- and I'm certain other sites do this because they want to build an arrival expectation for a certain column or feature, like Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column at CNNSI.com.)

* not comics: count me among the many that enjoyed this walk through the last eight years in presidential pool photos, as presented by Errol Morris and three picture editors.

* finally, a reader whose name I can't make out writes in with a good question: "What is that weird, floating shape in Prickly City cartoons? I first noticed it when there was a skateboard that impacted against a stone wall. I thought it was a helmet or tennis shoe floating to earth. Then, today, I saw it in the sky where one would see the moon, with wolves howling at it. Trouble is... it doesn't look anything like a moon. It's weird. Take a look for yourself."
 
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