Mainstream news covers comics

Our weekly check on what mainstream news sources are saying about comics:

• Nice profile of editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker in the Washingtonian.
• The Budapest Times covers an exhibit of Comic Art in Democratic Spain at the Cervantes Institute.
• USC’s Daily Trojan Online reviews Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead.
• The Kansas City Star reports that Chris Ware will be speaking on Friday at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in conjunction with an exhibit of his work.
• The Bradenton Herald looks at the Superhero Club at Eagle Ridge Elementary, formed by teacher Mitchell Reiner to help teach fourth and fifth graders how to write and draw comics.
• And Racing Milestones notes the debut of a NASCAR comics line, to be published by Starbridge Media Group.