* Bob Temuka makes the argument for caring about things a lot, even if they're things that other people feel don't matter.
* Paul Gravett, one of the co-curators of the British Library exhibit that's generating a ton of press and garnering a bunch of attention right now, writes about the comics medium in broad fashion as a disreputable art form as likely to antagonize cultural gatekeepers and arts institutions as it is to ever sit at the table with them. I wish I could settle behind Paul Gravett's eyeballs for a day; I think it would be fun to see comics the way he sees comics.
* finally, I don't think I ever linked to Naif al-Mutawa's own words on his The 99 being made subject of a fatwa by a government council of clerics, years after he and others associated with the property had worked well with the Saudi government.
* Brodie Lancaster talks to 
