Meeting of the minds: The Sarasota, Fla., Herald Tribune catches up with Will Eisner, who will take part in a Comics Summit on Diversity with Ho Che Anderson, Howard Cruse, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Mary GrandPre, among others. The event is sponsored by Ringling School of Art and Design:

"The issue of stereotyping is likely to come up during the comics summit. Eisner argues 'there's nothing wrong with stereotyping, per se -- sometimes that's the only way you can communicate visually. It's a way to quickly convey an idea or create an image of a person.

"'The danger is when you use stereotyping for evil purposes.'"