Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* if you only follow one comics link today, make it this one to a Ben Schwartz article about Los Angeles as a one-time alt-weekly comics haven.
* via Daily Cartoonist, Garry Trudeau talks about 40 years of Doonesbury for the forthcoming 40. When is the surge of appreciation for Trudeau's career accomplishments going to start? I'm guessing soon, maybe with that book.
* I didn't know they let Tom Toles rant in prose like this.
* finally, the ramifications for Steve Breen's attempt to do BP oil cartoons in BP oil, should that kind of thing catch on, are slightly more disturbing than I'd like to think about on a summer Friday morning.