Headed to Wildcat Comicon, where I’ll have the honor of kibitzing with Dave Elliott, Barry Lyga, Alex Simmons, Jim Ottaviani and many others on comics editing, diversity, and new publishing trends. It’s just a little unfortunate my panels are all first thing in the morning, because I’m just not that kind of gal. But hey: all the more entertainment for you.

Thanks for the nice interview, DC Women Kicking Ass! I could talk about Kate Spencer ’til the cows come home.

See previous post. And post away.

Had to wait until after April Fools’ Day so you’d know I mean it: This is the first of several posts bringing the ridiculous Bitter Girl backlog up to date. No time for commentary…so please, post your own!

Right in time for St. Patrick’s Day: the book launch party for this wonderful century-spanning mystery of Irish immigrants’ American dreams. March 30, 6-8 pm at South Street Seaport’s Harbor Lights restaurant. I can only lay claim to editing it; the rest is pure creator magic. Check out the Publishers Weekly preview, and come one come all.

Operation Ajax and its publishing vendor Cognito Comics got star treatment at this SXSW panel, deservedly so; it’s one of the few emerging graphic-content platforms that I think can really compete with Comixology.

I don’t mean it’s a zero-sum game; Comixology does excellent work, and I’m big on the rising-tide-lifts-all-boats theory when it comes to graphic novel e-publishing. Some market segments will prefer the Comixology interface; some will prefer the Cognito interface. At the end of the day, everyone wins. Though, I admit it: I love that Cognito was inspired to build the Active Reader platform via Torso, co-authored by my brilliant colleague Marc Andreyko.

Catching up on my perpetual backlog, I’m realizing I made label-reading jokes back-to-back…But it’s still so relevant these days, no? Especially for Republican primary voters.

Finder: Voice, the latest chapter in Carla Speed McNeil’s long-running, Eisner-winning sci-fi comic series, is up for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Nice! An update on Bad Houses, her excellent OGN collaboration with Sara Ryan, which I acquired and seriously miss editing, to come soon.