Briefly...

There's a rumor going around that the lead rotoscoper for Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly has quit the team.

The first chapter of Umberto Eco's new book, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, has been published by the New Yorker. The chapter is entitled "The Gorge". The book is billed as an illustrated novel and the cover looks like that of a graphic novel. Interesting. It comes out in June.