Places I saw comics where I didn't expect them:

• Spin's november issue review of Sandman: Endless Nights, which was mostly positive despite Spin's desire to keep an ironic distance from liking most things.
• The most recent Amnesty International newsletter giving a sample page of Persepolis with a quick description as a sidebar to an article about an Iranian dissident. It's on the top of the review pile here, but we've been spending too much time reworking the site layout.
• An episode of Date Plate where the man who was being wooed with food was a comic book collector - although I could have done without the embarrassing posing with his carefully bagged and boarded comics.

I know, it doesn't really impact the quality of comics, but maybe these things could help remind other people that they do still make comics, and some of them are actually good?

Which just makes it even more sad to read Christopher Priest's failed attempt to get publicity for his latest book. Now, I haven't actually read The Crew (I know I am part of the problem) but the thought of seeing comics being associated with hip-hop culture and advertised in Vibe sounds good to me. More comics should have soundtracks associated with them! (I figure that Mr. Sime is already working on giving comics associated drinks, so someone should pick up the music side of things)

Good to see Marvel is suffering from disorganization with its marketing and creative departments, and making sure that those few people who like to read convenient collections of issues don't have to waste their time on series that the much more populous single-issue collector doesn't like.

UPDATE: I forgot to put in the fact that Spin actually uses their back page every month to tell a story by a musician in comic form. Not bad placement at all...