It’s a boy!
Congratulations to ComicMix alumni Michael Dinowitz and his wife Judith on the birth of their newest child, a baby boy at 3:12 PM today. Little munchkin weighed 8lb 7oz and measured 21.5 inches long. Mazel tov!
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