May 19, 2014
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Paul Gravett
digs into the hostility that critics sometimes evince when confronted with comics.
* Todd Klein on
Justice League #29. I am sort of completely baffled when I read those "Forever Evil" comics, which posited this world-changing event that I somehow don't see in all of the DC titles I read and seems to come out a half-step slower than the other comics the company makes. I find reading those kinds of casual armageddon moments very odd, like hearing someone is sick in the hospital and then five minutes later seeing them in a local coffee shop drinking coffee. Okay, maybe not exactly like that. But it's very specific and peculiar weird. Patrick Hess on
The Bounce #12. Brandon Soderberg on
Popeye, The Classic Newspaper Comics -- Volume One: 1986-1989.
*
the number of words on this page is astonishing, and I'm a fan of a certain kind of mainstream comics presentation that emphasizes a lot of words.
* holy moley,
look at that pencil drawing from Alex Nino.
* not comics:
Chris Ware makes a rock poster.
*
David Lasky has finally put up some photos from his trip to Russia last year.
* Richard Bruton talks to
Gareth Brookes. Emma Courtland profiles
Jaime Hernandez. Abigail Sindzinski profiles
Ben Katchor. Karen Peltier profiles
Lale Westvind.
*
people are going to keep e-mailing me links to the comic on a strand of hair until I run a link.
* not comics: totally missed the passing of HR Giger, one of the visual artists that greatly influenced a certain kind of fantastic comics art in the 1970s and into the 1980s. I would say his influence was both directly and indirectly felt, and certainly the use of his visual imagery in
Alien was also of great benefit to comics stylists a generation later for the fealty show his work as opposed to the film industry making that work generic.
Here's a nice little gallery.
* Rich Johnston
notes that 3/4 of all the black writers nominated for an Eisner the last ten years were nominated this year.
*
that is an astonishing amount of money for anything, let alone original art. That's money that doesn't really have any connection to what you and I think of as money.
*
here's a history of comics featuring Godzilla. And
here's Brandon Graham drawing Godzilla.
*
some cartoonist needs to bring back the wacky doctor look.
* not comics: if you visit
all of these New York City bookstores you're supposed to visit before you die, you could buy comics at a bunch of them.
* finally, Paul Pope draws
Zatoichi.
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