* not comics: the writer Andrew Sullivan suggests that the late Andrew Breitbart is the first casualty of the 24-hour-news-blogger-twitter-culture-war cycle. The way he describes it makes me think of someone who's really into comics culture kicking the bucket, and that doesn't seem like an impossibility. Most of us have gone from years of being the only person we know that reads comics to being able to "live" in the company of comics fans for the majority of the hours in any given day. I wonder sometimes if we wouldn't all be better off taking a step back. Not even each person: collectively better off.
* this tale of a small child getting their parent fired up to learn about superhero comics is a very heartwarming story until you stop and think about the fact there is no reason at all the events described should be a rare thing. Then you get mad.
* not exactly comics: Mark Evanier talks about that cartoon that Marvel did in the '60s where instead of hiring a team of top-flight animators they basically gave a guy a pair of scissors and some old comic books. The theme songs were pretty awesome, though.
* Richard Sala 
