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When I started working on GraphicNovelReporter, probably the hardest thing for me to do was to write, well, this. As fun as it is to do the entire job, writing about myself seemed boring and beside the point (I had the same problem at Pages magazine: The editor’s letter was always the last thing I wrote, and I always secretly hoped that a last-minute ad or something would squeeze it out of the issue). So I’m a little bit reticent to talk about the big events of last week, which included an interview on GalleyCat and a speech before a group of librarians at the Brooklyn Public Library. Suffice to say that I was well outside of my comfort zone last week.

Welcome to the newest “issue” of GraphicNovelReporter.com. (Since I came up professionally in the world of magazines, I still tend to think of every update to the site as an “issue”—it’s a tough habit to break; for that matter, I still call all my CDs “albums”). Anyway, whatever we choose to call it, I’m happy to welcome you to it, because I have to say…this update has been one of my favorites since the site began. It incorporates such a wide-reaching scope of articles, I think, and they’re all in some way important to my love of this format. I’ll explain.