My pal Alison Bechdel’s followup to Fun Home gets a 100K print run. Note it’s also getting day-and-date e-book release, another previously unheard-of publisher move on behalf of a graphic novel. Way to go, Houghton!

I have the honor of being an inaugural guest at this conference, which includes Caldecott Award winner and National Book Award finalist David Small, New York Times bestselling author Josh Neufeld, and many others. It’s especially cool to see Penn State’s tech campus specifically supporting a program that makes equal room for fans, publishers, transmedia developers, and academics. Come on down in April!

Hey, once again, late posting works in my favor! I’m practically right on time for softball season!

This is a great article, not just because it’s great exposure (as Jim Ottaviani wrote to me, “I mean, seriously….Oprah.com!”) but a pleasantly diverse selection, both genre- and format-wise. Fiction, nonfiction, originals, adaptations, sequential works, sequential-text works…everything GNs can be.

Thanks for the nice review, Triple J!

Oh man, I’m so behind. Fortunately, Herman Cain has dropped out ahead of Bachmann, and “Food Fright” kicks off a major romantic storyline for Nikki that’s really heating up now if you check my subscribers, so I can act like it was planned all along.

I love that the super-reader-interactive Mulholland Books website is using original comic content to promote its new prose crime thrillers. I’m biased, as usual, but I gotta say: expect to see way more of this down the road.

These weren’t meant to be so cyber-salacious — they were just drawn that way.