* this made me laugh, although at the same time I'd be surprised if that's the first time James did that.
* this is a nice, lengthy twitter rant from Pia Guerra against abusive people on the Internet with designs on somehow entering comics that way. I think that comics is less smaller than it used to be than more highly balkanized but whether it's one neighborhood or several the idea that you can enter through the front door of an artistic community giving everyone the finger will always be a dicey one.
* that is some cover. I don't usually enjoy those three-step process posts, but each stage features art that has some vibrancy to it -- for different reasons related to the stage of production.
* Tegan O'Neil on 
