* Today on Robot 6: Tom Hart, Leela Corman, and John Porcellino launch a new comics school, The Sequential Artists Workshop;

* and Gary Groth says “My God, what have I done?”

* Re that post, some amazingly naked hostility being thrown around in the Comics Journal roundtable on Ben Schwartz’s Best American Comics Criticism that it links to–not a huge surprise whenever the Hooded Utilitarian gang is involved, I know, but it’s a surprise to see Jeet Heer come out swinging nonetheless.

* The State’s album Comedy for Gracious Living is coming out on September 14, over 14 years after it was recorded. Like Ryan Penagos, I really hope they also re-release the State’s book State by State with the State–someone stole my copy during my senior year in college, which is not at all surprising.

* Mike Barthel points out something I’m apparently too dopey to have comprehended on my own, which is that Pitchfork’s Top 50 Videos of the ’90s was a one-man affair, not the usual “as voted by the staff” thing, which I think explains a lot–it does feel more like someone‘s list than those things usually do. It spurred some interesting thoughts on irony from Barthel and Nitsuh Abebe; I particularly liked Abebe’s distinction between ’90s altrock irony and ’00s electroclash irony, which Mike follows up on. (“Sometimes I kinda think [electroclash] deserves a little more respect”? C’mon, we can do better than that! You got a problem with me? You should get your ass off of Avenue D!)

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