By Tom Spurgeon
* Autoptic has announced Jaime Hernandez, my favorite cartoonist and one of the best, as a special guest of their first show this summer.
* The Beat spotlights a convention planned for the Fall in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
* here's a report I completely missed about the Alex Ross exhibit at the Norman Rockwell museum. I also missed that there was an Alex Ross exhibit at the Norman Rockwell museum. I don't mean to kid about the fact that that happened, because that's a nice career milestone for Mr. Ross. Just my missing it is pitiful.
* there is now a poster/catalog for the small art show in Houston derived from the comics collection of the one-time alt-comics industry stalwart and now very talented arts writer (among other things) Robert Boyd: Boyd_front.pdf
* finally, Alan Gardner live-tweeted that Success In Comics seminar last weekend.