April 18, 2011
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* that forthcoming Anders Nilsen is
one big book.
*
this post at Comics Alliance on comic book covers that use the logo as a design element within the comic art is deserving of its well linked-to status, and awfully cute besides.
* the writer and critic Chris Mautner
picks the six best stories from the soon-to-fade young-artist focused anthology
MOME; it's a good list, and I would have selected three of them for my own list including the first two. That Trondheim story in particular is a real hidden gem.
* fellow writers about comics should note
how gracefully R. Fiore sweeps through that recent Joe Staton-draw Ayn Rand book in the latest installment of his revived "Funnybook Roulette" column.
* missed it:
a John Porcellino interview about the business of publishing comics on the small scale.
* it's hard to imagine how you'd make the experience of
buying some Brandon Graham original art any better, but benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund while doing so seems to me like it would do the job.
* the cartoonist Evan Dorkin
uses the occasion of drawing the Marvel mutant character Peeper to go on a first class rant about second-tier character designs and the importance of a good name. I always liked characters like that, because it would make sense that over time villains would have good teams of accomplices and dopey ones.
* I'm glad to see Floating City Cassette-Head Guy from
The Empire Strikes Back got the extra scenes he deserved in Marvel's
Star Wars comic book.
* Chris Butcher
passes along word that Taiyo Matsumoto is auctioning off a delicious-looking piece of art to benefit Japan earthquake relief.
* it appears
they actually dance late nights at the European convention bars.
* I wasn't aware that Jean Schulz had
an on-line outlet for her thoughts and experiences. The first several deal with her journey to a comics festival in Greece.
.
* longtime comics industry veteran Robert Boyd, now keeping his hand in as a more general arts writer in great city of Houston, Texas, is curating a show featuring work by Jim Woodring and Marc Bell and
wants to talk to you about it.
*
it's good to be the king.
*
Paul Gravett talks to Lorenzo Mattotti. Reading
Fires and
Murmur back to back may be the most important experience of my comics-reading life that didn't involve narrative or story or even the overall impact of the work. There were individual pages in each of those albums that just killed me dead, flat-out, particularly the one in
Murmur where the protagonist watches his now-dead mother from outsider of her window. A bunch of tumblers fell into place for me that day.
* finally, Sean T. Collins
strongly suggests that you read
Puke Force.
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