* the ComicsPro people have sent out a press release that writer Robert Kirkman will give the keynote speech at their annual meeting in Memphis, March 25-27. That could be particularly interesting if new-deal changes at DC and Marvel are starting to reveal themselves by then and Kirkman's speech could conceivably be seen as Image's response to any such change.
* not comics: I think Johanna Draper Carlson nails it when she suggests that the reason there's little risk in releasing the entirety of Charles Vess' art book on-line is that no art book customer one can fathom would find that a reasonable substitute for the actual book.
* the writer Sean Kleefeld asks if a comics company promoting themselves as biographers has the right to depict Stephanie Meyer as far skinnier than she is if they want to. He says yes, but in doing so it damages their credibility as biographers. I say in doing so they not only damage their reputations as biographers, I'm not sure I can continue to believe Meyer when she tells me how a vampire's hair smells.
* the great Eddie Campbell suggests he'll be reviewing a bunch of books that touch on the subject of the graphic novel, starting with this piece on Will Eisner's Life In Pictures. Sounds good to me.
* there's some fun conversation at Comics Comicshere about the Richard Corben-drawn Cage mini-series from early this decade. What I remember when that came out is that a lot of people enjoyed the art but the story seemed pretty generic and the overall approach from Marvel in terms of goosing up their characters a very specific way had begun to be kind of tiresome.
* not comics: The Bradleysmoves into the pilot phase. Not only should there be a at least one Peter Bagge TV show on the air at all times, about 40 shows that have been on the air since 1990 should have given Bagge a cut.
* Josh Elder makes the case for his Reading With Pictures initiative. I don't have the time right this minute to vet the project the way it should be vetted, but I didn't want to keep any of you from being exposed to the idea from reading Elder's letter and considering the ideas and proposals there on your own.
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* there's some fun conversation at Comics Comics 
