* I really like the look of Jason Marcy's newest strip, The Balance. Look at the life-drawing lessons evident and the maturing of his inking style. I'm glad that despite a career change he's still able to find time to draw and make comics, because he's getting better, and he was pretty great to begin with. Here's my review of his first Jay's Days collection from, holy cow, 13 years ago.
* On Twitter, the cartoonist notes that his work on Web Comics Nation is in limbo at the moment, affecting the strips he had posted to his LiveJournal as well. This is an important lesson for anyone creating work online: Back it up, own your own site. Eventually everything you don't own or control disappears. Yes, I use Blogger and Tumblr as platforms for my writing, but I save the stuff that's important to me, backing it up in the cloud, on my laptop and on an external harddrive. (Jay Marcy may have done all this for all I know; I'm just calling this out as an example.) Not doing so years ago has led to regret, as much of my earliest writing about comics (say, most of the 5 Questions pieces I did for Newsarama) is accessible only through difficult and only occasionally successful journeys into the depths of Archive.org's Wayback Machine.
* Uncomics: James Howard Kunstler writes for Politico: Chris Christie's New Jersey is Everything That's Wrong With America. Having been through its post-apocalyptic wastelands last week, I find it hard to argue.
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