Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Eric Stephenson of Image on sell-outs. It's always been slightly absurd how many folks accept the standard spin on this particular market development.
* go, look: Kid Clampdown. I don't get a whole lot of unsolicited links that turn out to be interesting, but that was one.
* a University of Texas student cartoonist was fired for her Trayvon Martin cartoon. It makes me very uncomfortable when someone is fired for the content of a cartoon, even when that content sounds completely idiotic.
* Mike Dean has penned a piece I have yet to read on MoCCA, a kind of summary article on what they've accomplished and what they haven't over the last decade. The comments section is pretty interesting, too. I did read some of that. It slays me that grown-ups will actually argue the "why don't you donate/contribute rather than criticize?" thing as if that's a real argument. I would imagine that some folks criticize rather than donate/contribute to an institution or a cause because they feel the thing in question is worth criticizing more than it is something worth donating/contributing to. That anyone seems to believe that this kind of thinking isn't just a strong counter-argument but actually trumps the impetus of criticism is mind-boggling to me.
* I'm grateful for this press release for its succinct summation of where Nerdist Industries came from. I'm always a little suspicious of advisory boards and of endeavors to capitalize on a way of looking at art that seems to be working from the outside in.
* finally, Johanna Draper Carlson on What Happened To Comic Book Ads? I remember when I noticed that Wizard had very few ads, six months later Wizard was gone.
* go, look: 
