* if you're only going to read one linked-to article today, you should make it Patrick Rosenkranz's survey article focused on a small set of excellent comic book shops. The main idea that gets floated is that with people now comfortable with a casually predatory orientation towards buying retail -- seriously, anyone that openly scans in an item at a bookstore to buy it from Amazon later on in a way that the bookstore staff can see you, that person, yikes -- you need to carry material and inducements for going to the shop that aren't things that can be copied by those bigger, price-cutting sources. That makes sense to me.
* Gabby Gamboa pens a scene report on San Francisco for Frank Santoro recurring series on various comics scenes.
* Rob Tornoe takes a look at the cartooning plagiarism scandals hitting newspapers this Fall.
* if you're only going to read one linked-to article today, you should make it 
