* I've written about the Hermann/Moore/Wendling finalists slate at Angouleme this year in its own post, but if you doubted that this is a story that will have legs as a critical touchstone, read something like this review of an all-male anthology.
* one of my personal realizations the last three years was that I'm not a fan in the way most fans today are fans, that this is a statement that doesn't automatically come with a hierarchy of value, and I should therefore shut my fat yob before criticizing fans for simply approaching things differently than I do. So I try to read every post I can from fans attending shows. This one was very sweet.