Douglas Wolk has an essay up at Salon about "graphic novels" (as opposed to "comic books") that's in the category of "I'm glad he wrote this so I don't have to."
Another article I hope someone will write so I don't have to is about how the word "comics" is evolving, as a Mr. Jack Kirby always predicted it would. Jack always said it would transcend things printed on paper and become a term for an entire approach to fiction and communication. Movies would be comics and vice-versa, he said. For me, the Comic-Con International has become a stark example of this. So many things in that exhibit hall — not only movies but games and Internet projects and multimedia presentations — are "comics" by association and lineage. Yes, the convention has expanded amazingly over the years…but so has the world of "comics."