* Phil Jupitus celebrates Calvin and Hobbes and Bill Watterson. That's a great comics work, and I'm not sure that the understanding we have of it now is the same understanding we'll have of it ten years from now, which is a really interesting place to be with a work that's a couple of decades behind us now.
* Cynthia Clark Harvey would like to recommend these 10 graphic novels for your Fall reading. Those are some very high-profile books, and I look forward to reading them all.
* there's some interesting material in this article on the rise in female comics readers, although it still seems like there's some way-too-easy conflation between superhero and related action-adventure genre comics and all of comics.