§ All things Comic-Con: The Unofficial Comic-Con blog laid out all the sizes of all the panel rooms so you can guess if you’re going to get in or not. My advice: just get in line now.
§ As I expected, Torsten investigated the new Marriott Hall exhibit area with maps and such, but I still can’t figure our where it was. I guess I’ll find out when I see a hole in the ground.
§ Even for a governor, Maine’s Paul LePage is a batf*ck wacko. Last week he threatened to shoot a cartoonist he didn’t like, a fairly mild sin on his list. Luckily, now LePage may have done something that is actually illegal, and people are talking impeachment. Given that the guy got elected twice, I’m not optimistic, but you never know. Meanwhile, the Bangor Daily News responded to the threat with “9 times George Danby was funnier than Paul LePage.” I think you have to be up on your Mainer politics to get these (my family lives in Maine), but I’m pretty sure they are funnier than threatening to shoot someone.
§ Ken Parille has more interpretations of that surprisingly controversial Chris Ware Minecraft cover for the New Yorker.
§ Paul Levitz’s exclusive with DC is over, as he’s now writing a book for Dark Horse called Brooklyn Blood with art by Tim Hamilton. As a sidenote: a book by Paul Levitz was announced on Bleeding Cool, so anything in the world is actually possible.
§ Zainab went to ELCAF last weekend and she has a survey of opinions on the show from exhibitors and attendees and a list of what she bought, and as usual she managed to find the most mind boggling art, in this case Pablo and Jane and the Hot Air Contraption by Jose Domingo.
§ Not comics, but Joe Gonzalez, occasional co host of the Comic News Insider podcast, announced that he’s moving upstate, and summed up all the reasons that no one can live in New York City anymore. Pretty much everyone I know is moving to LA, and in the past I would have been alarmed but now it seems only sensible.