1) Rumor has it that the latest issue of the Comics Journal (#258–The Ditko Issue) features my letter about the trouble with News Watch and some other aspects of how the Journal works, as well as lengthy responses from (former, alas) managing editor Milo George, news editor Mike Dean, and other writers and staff members. I’m excited to read it and respond, but unfortunately I have no access to a copy, ’cause I have no access to the kind of comics shop that would have one to sell me. I’m working on rectifying this, but I thought I should note, since people have been asking, that I haven’t seen the ish at all yet. I’ll keep you posted.
2) Readers of Brian Hibbs’s column about bookstores and manga, and of this blog’s and Dave Intermittent’s responses to same, should check out Hibbs’s response to Dave’s response. Brian had actually written a similar email to me about my own piece, but I wasn’t quite sure if I had the O.K. to publicly post it (along with my retorts, apologies, etc., though you can find a couple of the latter here), so I didn’t. His message to Dave covers many of the same bases. (Brian, if it is okay for me to reprint our exchange, just let me know…)