Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* there is a facebook page designed to foster support for adding Oh, Brother! to artist Jay Stephens' hometown newspaper (via Bryan Munn)
* the cartoonist Mark Kalesniko sketches and draws an old Pacer in anticipation of its role in the forthcoming graphic novel Freeway. Surely this is the mightiest of all cars.
* not comics: I knew that Mark Gruenwald was a forward-thinker in a lot of ways, but this seems to indicate he was ahead of the curve right up until the end and a little bit past it.
* the writer Chris Allen reflects on his relationship to comics ten years ago and now, through the anniversary recently celebrated by the Comic Book Galaxy family of web efforts. There's always that moment when you engage with an art form for as long as Allen has that you suddenly stop and look at where your interests were when you first started, and in most cases there's usually a surprise or two in that examination.
* and then, suddenly, there was apparently no other news anywhere in the world.
* the cartoonist Evan Dorkin takes a survey of his recent comics-reading habits, and muses on the appeal that serial entertainment of even the shoddy kind has over him.
* not comics: a New York Times editorial writer offers up the unsurprising observation that watching Paris Hilton videos on the Internet can mess with your hard-won feelings of off-the-grid serenity.
* the cartoonist Mark Kalesniko 
