Back in June I mentioned that Dave Eggers was planning on an issue of McSweeney's that would be published in traditional newspaper format and attempt to showcase the benefits of print as he saw them; rather than have them act as an outdated competitor to online news. That issue is now available for preorder and promises the following:

Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine and a weekend guide, and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do, with as much first-rate writing and reportage and design (and posters and games and on-location Antarctic travelogues) as we can get in there. Expect journalism from Andrew Sean Greer, fiction from George Saunders and Roddy Doyle, dispatches from Afghanistan, and much, much more.

You can see some samples from the issue here. It's a bit expensive ($16) and probably has had way too much preplanning involved to be an actual viable roadmap for day-to-day print outlets but the idea behind it is undeniable. I'd love to see a copy.

Reminder via Kate.