* not comics: maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but this announcement from the Oregonian about them transitioning into one of those few-newspaper, beefed-up on-line operations struck me as sort of sad. If you were given millions of dollars to start a newspaper or similar news-gathering institution from scratch, the only thing it would look less like than an old-timey paper is one of these heaving, crumbling hybrids.
* not sure if you can see this or not (I never am), but Ben Schwartz throws some love in Will Elder's direction.
* Johanna Draper Carlson asks if you'd pay for comics delivery, noting that if you get a bunch of comics every week it pays for itself. I would totally do that if I were working a job in the city. Totally.
* teaching 
