* finally, Sean Collins leads us to Lisa Hanawalt's parade of oddball fashion week-related drawings. Speaking of Collins, his noting in passing that a couple of the major, dependable mini-comics producers were absent from SPX and this gave him a sense of the energy of the show shifting elsewhere for this year made me think how little of what goes on in SPX reports is really about taking a fact or two and coming to a conclusion -- basic con report stuff. Mostly it's theories of community and the state of the art form and/or debunking of other people's theories with clever rhetoric. Collins also profiles L. Nichols here.
* someone needs to do a book of book ownership stickers, like this pretty one by Roy Krenkel 
