* I'm not sure I totally understand this story, but it seems to be talking about how a publisher can benefit from buying a DVD line, even though DVDs aren't comics and the technology is probably on the decline.
* Various cartoonists with work on the web battle each other in the sweeping statements department and R Stevens makes a bid to be included on every possible convention panel on which one can stick him in this report from the webcomics panel at SPLAT! A general report on the event can be found here.
* John Jakala surveys one bookstore's comics-related shelves and wonders why the bookstore battle of Marvel vs. DC receives so much ink when they're clearly getting their butts kicked by the various translated manga companies.
* Mark Evanier discusses the issue of taking floor questions during panels, a tried and true tradition at comics conventions the world over. I've only done a few panels, but my experience thus far has been different from Mark's in that I tend to get good questions from the audience. Moreover, I'm probably overly sensitive to letting someone who traveled all the way to the show and is attending this specific panel out of all the things they could be doing ask their question, even if it annoys me. That's not a shot at anyone but me, by the way. Admittedly, it makes a difference that I tend to moderate panels for less-famous artists or on wonky issues so the questions are generally pretty focused and interesting. Other panels are very different. I've always joked that if you made a drinking game where you drank every time a questioner at a newspaper strip panel had an ax to grind about his own strip submission, you would have a very successful drinking game -- for killing people.
* finally, Dark Horse Comics has press and cover images up for two of their on-line comics into print efforts, building on recent successes with similarly targeted comics: K Chronicles and Wondermark.
* Marc Sobel continues his series focusing on each issue of Love and Rockets Volume One 
