* Daniel Elkin suggests a few indy/alt comics as holiday presents. That's another vote for the Luke Healy book as a sleeper for 2016.
* Jude Terror assembles an interesting on-line conversation here involving the artist Greg Capullo over whether or not it's possible for people to disengage with politics entirely, as, for example, doing so indicates the kind of privilege that only extends to a limited number of creators. I'm reminded that at the first SDCC panel on blogging, several of the creators noted the intensity and passion that was engaged by political expression whether or not it had a comics tie-in. I'd say political discourse is deeply, deeply intertwined with how people express themselves on-line and now that we're in a Trump-inspired armageddon of rhetorical ploys, all of this just became 10X more complicated.
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