Ever since I posted this item about the abrupt hospitalization of cartoonist-theorist Scott McCloud, I've gotten e-mails from folks asking if Scott is all right. Saturday night, I saw him and his terrific mate Ivy at a party and am happy to report that Scott seems to be all right. I mean, I didn't take his pulse or do a blood count on the guy but he appeared to be in good health…and he and Ivy and I and my terrific mate Carolyn and our fine friend Kurt Busiek and I think Len Wein and his terrific mate Chris are all having dinner this week. If Scott's well enough to eat with me, he's fine. But as we talked, I realized that I never embedded this excerpt from a talk he gave for the Ted project. Here's seventeen minutes of Scott discussing comics in the way that only Scott can…