Some of the biggest names in indie cartooning are sounding alarms over various alt-weeklies shedding their comics (I recently wrote about how we were, sadly, ahead of the curve on that one). Max Cannon of "Red Meat" calls it a "comics apocalypse" and says that if the "humble $10 to $20 that I generally get [...]

In which Erik gushes over the latest issue of Bash (a new-to-the-scene alternative-comics monthly) and takes the Examiner to task for a listings misfire.
The whole shebang, including some signature comic strip exegesis, below the jump.

You may have seen the bright yellow boxes around town: Bash, a new alternative-comics monthly, will debut Friday. "We're in the air, dropping," says Publisher John B. Van Meter.
The D.C. publication's Web site has information for potential advertisers, a PDF of its prototype issue, and, somewhat less expectedly, a mailing address in Lexington, Ky., a [...]