* some poor person from France talks to Chip Zdarsky.
* more on autobio comics, a theme running through various comics places on Tumblr right now.
* here's a not-comics reminder that sometimes businesses go under because of bad business decisions as much as a change in context or the back and forth of the historical tides.
* Johanna Draper Carlson points out that Kate Beaton is going to have a two-book year. It's a very good year when we get multiple works from our best and most popular cartoonists -- we have such a broad array of pretty good ones with sizable followings that we forget the effect that bigger names can have on the excitement level.
* not comics: a famous writer/director closed down his Twitter account yesterday, perhaps because of backlash to his treatment of a character in a brand-new superhero movie. (I'm not naming names so I can ask my brother if he was aware of this until I mentioned it here. Hi, Whit.) The thing that most interests me here is the certainty of fans that they know not just good/bad treatment of characters they enjoy but correct/incorrect. That's such a victory for those companies, to have people involved with their properties on that level, particularly in that the argument for correct treatment seems much more convincingly whatever gets paid for and put out there by those companies.
* Grant Goggans on 
