* Japan is working on a National Manga Museum. It's interesting to me how openly the article examines that effort in terms of being a part of Japan's efforts to capitalize on the popularity of manga in terms of a cultural export.
* not comics: if this were about comics instead of prose publishing, I would accuse the writer of these two articles to be trolling for big-time hits: how broke writers are, why he won't self-publish.
* given the current political climate, I'm grateful Derf has an escape plan all worked out. For more Derf, check out this killer rant against comic strip surveys. He's right about everything he says there -- newspapers and comics would have had a stronger relationship if more newspapers took curating this part of their publication with greater seriousness.
* Sean Gaffney on 
