DEAD TREES

• E& P lists some of the initial newspapers Rich Stevens' Diesel Sweeties will launch in next year.
  
• The Daily Cartoonist links to speculation on what the newspaper business will look by the end of the decade.

INTERVIEWS

• The Comics Reporter links to an interview with Gene Yang, creator of American Born Chinese.
  
• Newsarama catches up with Frank Cho. He seems to be doing a lot of superhero work these days.

CONSERVATIVE COMICS

• Ted Rall defends the recently arrested creator of Mallard Fillmore, Bruce Tinsley.
• Dirk Deppey wonders aloud (look under "digital comics" section) if the recent nearly nude shot of a character in Chris Muir’s webcomic Day by Day would offend readers of conservative blogs where the strip is syndicated.
  
• I missed that Line Item Veto went on hiatus.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

• Joey Manley charts the long tail of WCN webcomics.
• Omigawd! Kris Straub snaps and kicks the crap out of Scott Kurtz! And uh, more behind the scenes on the forthcoming PvP animated series.
• Stephen "xmung" Crowley has some thoughts on webcomic audience sizes.
  
• Every comics creator should have a comic bio. Check out Jon Morris' bio here.
  
• Where is Waldo Ryan? Help decide where world explorer/cartoonist Ryan Estrada heads to next.
  

NOT WEBCOMICS

• Not sure how old this is, but the cast of the NBC television show, Scrubs, dubbed the dialogue to the classic Peanuts Christmas special. Pretty funny, actually.