“After THE IRON GIANT, THE INCREDIBLES and now [RATATOUILLE], I feel it is safe to say that Brad Bird is the closest thing there is to the Miyazaki of America.” -Heidi MacDonald

“5 Red Bulls haven’t worked, and my new Sida Cordifolia tablets smell like cat piss. Today may be the day I die.” -Warren Ellis

“[Warren Ellis] is honestly amazed [that his fisrt novel reached #214 on Amazon] — while I suspect a legion of Goth/Burlesque part-time dommes in Spider Jerusalem glasses snapping the crop across bottoms all across the world, hissing ‘When it buys its thousandth Crooked Little Vein, it gets its treat.’” -John Rogers

“I know people hate on comics retailers all the time, but there’s a part of me that I know is going to miss the raggedy-ass aspects of the first three decades of Direct Market retail, a system for the delivery of an entire art form manned to a significant percentage by the merchant equivalent of the Island of Lost Toys.” -Tom Spurgeon

“The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other ‘good’ kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.

MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, ‘burnouts,’ ‘alternative kids,’ ‘art fags,’ punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn’t go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school. Teens who are really into music or in a band are on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers.” -Danah Boyd

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