Drawn from the border fence where we all are denied entry…

• Mexican scholar Ernesto Priego has been denied a visa for re-entering the United States for an appearance later this month at International Comic Arts Forum.
• Sean O’Reilly has moved from Arcana Studio’s over to run the animation arm of Platinum Studios.
• Christopher Butcher posts about the state of comics journalism.
• Shaenon Garrity, the creator of Narbonic and editor for Viz Media will be at the Schulz museum for their Second-Saturday Cartoonist program on Saturday, October 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
• Lower Hudson News remembers Archie Comics Richard Goldwater who recently passed on. Our condolences to Mr. Goldwarter’s family.
• CBR and Greg Burgas investigate what fun comics are.
• ROK Comics will announce the winner of their $10,000 humor competition at the Birmingham International Comic Show on Saturday, October 14^th at the end of the Technology Panel. The selection will be made from an unpublished list of 30 finalists.
• Yes, I too will link to Strong Bad and his advice on how to make webcomics.
• Dark Horse publishing of the first print collection of The Perry Bible Fellowship, The Trial of Colonel Sweeto, is going well. Good for them!
• Mike Hawthorne starts a new site Thinktank Comics to serialize his work Hysteria.