* it's been a few days so let me remind you of the Barbara Shermund burial fund GoFundMe. It's a great honor that the community of cartoonists has been asked to take care of such a magnificently talented one of their own, and I hope you'll at least consider it. Catch up here.
* I hadn't walked through Chris Diaz' photos for Comic Arts Brooklyn 2018 and there's a ton of endearing shots of recent gigantic comics-makers, the ones that have dominated the last two years and are likely to be major forces for the next five to ten. I cry at everything now.