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March 9, 2016


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Don MacPherson on American Monster #1. Johanna Draper Carlson on Will Eisner's The Spirit. Richmond Clements on Lois Before Superman: Fallout. RJ Case on the comics of Adam Buttrick.

* to help celebrate International Women's Day, Zainab Akhtar put together a list of cartoonists AV Club readers should get to know. You should get to know them, too.

* just a reminder that Todd Klein is continuing on his profile of Danny Crespi.

* the new, much-anticipated Black Panther is previewed on familiar ground: The Atlantic.

* bundled extra: Rob Williams will join Jim Lee on the Suicide Squad book coming out in anticipation of the movie.

* finally, this article about 12 comics fashion icons from the 1980s features several interesting choices within the context of 1980s comics (I don't know from fashion), including a couple of characters about whom I'd forgotten. The article is correct in that few mainstream comic book artists paid attention to fashion in the same way a romance newspaper strip artists from the 1960s would have.
 
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