I'm happy to hear that cartoonist (practitioner and theorist) Scott McCloud is doing better after what sounds like a scary hospitalization. He and his family were in New Orleans attending a 50th birthday party for Neil Gaiman. (I would've been there but for a deposition I had to give in a legal matter.) At the party, Scott was stricken and taken away in an ambulance…which had to have been a horrifying experience for him and his family. It's bad enough when that kind of thing happens close to home — but in a strange city? Far from your own doctors? Awful. His wonderful spouse Ivy Ratafia wrote about it from her point-o'-view in this blog entry…and Scott is now posting on his weblog, which makes us feel better. The final diagnosis was a "celiac artery dissection." I'm not sure what that is…only that none of us want to ever have one of them. We look forward to Scott getting healthier and healthier and never going through anything like that again.