WaPo on the popularity of comics these days

Drawing Power - washingtonpost.com: "I've wandered into an alternative universe, and I'm trying to decide if I want to stay. The setting is the lovely, old-fashioned library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, in midtown Manhattan. The event is a gathering called 'SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium.' I'm here because the organizers have promised to lay out, in the course of a single day, 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Graphic Novels.'"