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ABORTION CARTOON RAISES $2,200 FOR CHOICE, from Salon.com
Quick update on the results of Stephanie McMillan's online auction of her hilarious cartoon criticizing South Dakota state Sen. Bill Napoli's creepy antiabortion rhetoric: The strip raised $2,201! Proceeds will go to abortion providers in and around South Dakota, including Sacred Choices, the clinic Oglala Sioux President Cecelia Fire Thunder plans to place on sovereign tribal lands within S.D.

Of course, Napoli has been less than thrilled about McMillan's consciousness-raising efforts. "The cartoon generated a huge amount of filth, intolerable filth," he told the Rapid City Journal. "Ninety-nine percent of the calls I got were just filth. I bet I didn’t talk to 20 or 25 people I could talk to. The rest were screaming obscenities before I could hang up."

GRAY HORSES: HOPE LARSON ARTICLE, on Salon.com
By the time the Canadian cartoonist Hope Larson published her first graphic novel last year, she'd already been the toast of the independent comics underground for a while. Her early, handmade mini-comics staked out her conceptual territory: the world of dreams, where things are always becoming each other. (Some of them can be seen at her site.) "Salamander Dream," though, was the comics debut of the year...

I'm on a Marvel press conference call right now with Mark Millar. Civil War...
No real news, but it's always fun to hear someone talk in a Scottish accent.