* I am very much taken with the Alex Toth Conan image used here.
* I have to imagine that a blog about a summer comics class from that most enthusiastic of comics educators Charles Hatfield will be fun, and I hope that future entries are as fully engaged as this first one. I have no idea what the hell I would teach anyone about comics, but I come from a psychological mindset that never proselytized on behalf of the medium other than writing about it in the places I feel appropriate writing about it.
* Bob Temuka writes about abusive Internet culture and what he thinks should be the general response strategy. Bonus points for the phrase "fools and fuckwits."
* Matt Emery profiles at length the comics shop Mark One on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. It looks like a solid, full-service shop of the kind one wishes were everywhere.