* Alex Cox writes here on the changes in his life and his orientation towards writing about comics in the years since he stopped writing about comics and started working in comics more directly. I think that's a pretty standard boilerplate in terms of observations from a lot of people that move from that part of comics to the other. That writing about comics isn't as much about the reality of comics I tend to see as a failure of that writing, including my own.
* not comics: here's a post on one of those machines that dispenses stickers called stinckers that was the subject of the show a bunch of folks attended at Meltdown before CALA.
* not comics: journalism is growing impatient with the white knight syndrome, which makes total sense in that the white knight recruitment pool is exactly the same as the not-quite-as-white knights that assumed control over media properties the last three decades. It's just a new someone, not someone new.
* Chris Sims on 
