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Found this while I was going through some old art:
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This was an ad I put together to promote Dave Sim's "Spirits of Independence Tour" back in 1995. I exhibited at the Columbus, Wilmette, and Pittsburgh shows. As I recall, the turnout was pretty underwhelming, but it was a blast commiserating with like-minded cartoonists. For a brief moment it felt like we were part of a genuine Comics Revolution that would overthrow the Big Two and create a Self-Publishing Paradise. You can guess how that worked out.

Still, it's nice to look over this list of hot young self-publishers and realize that most of them are still around and doing creative work of one kind or another (Drew Hayes sadly passed away a few years back). And thanks to the new medium of webcomics, we have a whole new generation of cartoonists who take their creative autonomy for granted. Of course, finding a way to make that work pay is still a challenge, but some things never change...
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Jessica Alba - Smarter than you thought:
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200901280009
(link swiped from Jeremy Lassen)

Gene Ha is compiling (without comment) fan annotations of the new Top Ten series. I contributed a few:
http://www.geneha.com/blog/2009/01/top-10-annotations-compiled.html

Note to DC - I would buy the hell out of a Richard Sala Batgirl comic:
http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/richard-sala-covers-batman-197.html

The folks at Ka-Blam are getting into the distribution business:
http://www.comicsmonkey.com/blog/
(link swiped from Newsarama)

A look at the Superman cartoons of the 1940s, and the parodies they inspired:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/secretsuperman.html
(link swiped from Mark Evanier)

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