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§ SPACE, the long running small press show located in Columbus, is moving to a new venue and time frame this year: July 18 &19, 2015 at the Northland Performing Arts Center. The date is the weekend after San Diego, which is not ideal, but SPACE had no choice, as organizer Bob Corby explains in an email:

§ Just to finish up the Oscars, which everyone has probably already forgotten, cartoonist Liza Donnelly live drew them on her twitter feed, and got a big write up in her local paper about it, and also did some nice drawings.

Sorry there haven't been any kibbles 'n' bits this week. It's just been too cold at Stately Beat Manor, and that's the truth. All we want to do is pile on the blankets and chug hot cocoa. But we've been storing things up and now there are so many we must break this into sections.

Yesterday feathers, panties and twitter feeds were ruffles by this piece in the Guardian entitled When did the comic-book universe become so banal? It was written by an art critic named Jonathan Jones , and while moaning about Scott McCloud and Chris Ware (the poor man's Paul Klee) it finally came round to true greatness:

  By Brian Hibbs (Originally published February 2015) “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” For the twelfth (!) year in a row, I’m...

§ By chance, two websites have been devoting some time to overviews of...non Big Two Comics I guess you could call 'em. Multiversity is...

§ Last week marked the one year anniversary of Ms. Marvel #1 and...well it was quite a year. There's been a tumblr celebration, which Brigid Alverson sums up, including some thoughtful essays on what the character means.

People are nuts. Really. But some are pretty awesome, too, and you will read about both kinds in this episode we like to call...KIBBLES 'n' BITS...

Have you tried to set up a business before, faceless mass of readers? Laying down groundwork for a business is like trying to punch the face of an ouroboros or wrestle a gordian knot.

I went through the old mailbag and found some newsy bits I had previously missed. Toys, books, shorts, variants, and the Cackler.

§ Norm Breyfogle suffered a stroke on December 17th, but he's making great progress, as shown in this video; his fundraiser to help with...

A week's worth of reading: § Has Manga Become a Niche Category? Johanna Draper Carlson examines some opinions on this, and quotes comments by Vertical's...