Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* for no particular reason, Scott Mills sent me this portrait of Marlon Brando as Atoman. His Patreon is here.

* Kate Beaton shows us how to draw the Fat Pony.

* Bruce Canwell notes that one advantage of the not-always-good-old-days is that you could go to a bookstore and buy a book and know what it looks like before you get it, which was really key when you're dropping $40-$50 a book like people do routinely for Canwell's Library Of American Comics volumes.

* totally missed that Ta-Nehisi Coates answered a bunch of questions about the comic-book writing part of his current career. I have friends that aren't fond of those comics, thinking them a wordy take on standard recent Marvel tropes, but that's sort of why I like them: I think the 2000s Marvel formula is pretty sturdy, and I'd welcome a lot of different writers doing their take on it.

* finally, a case for graphic novels as the bookstore category of importance growth-wise.
 
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