Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this Great Gatsby riff from Kate Beaton is about as silly and as accessible as the cartoonist gets.

* because they love us, D&Q has a huge scan of a rejected Chris Ware Fortune cover that lets you read all the tiny-letter jokes.

* R. Fiore points at that Tasha Robinson/Reads jaw-dropper, providing enough context to get you where you're heading if you haven't heard about it yet.

* I find Carlos Latuff's constant priming of the system to draw attention to himself severely tiring to watch, but I like some of his cartoons okay. They're not exactly loaded with meaning and nuance, but many are funny and I always like blunt cartooning. Here's a profile.

* I don't really understand what anyone gets out of objecting to widely accepted terminology at this point in comics' development. Sometimes names aren't perfect. If names were always perfectly appropriate, my name would be Bronislaw "Blackjack" Hammersmith. Does that totally describe me or what?

* not comics: Steve Jobs sounds like he needs a blowjob. Is there an app for that?

* some of the whip-cracking in this 1976 (dated 1974) Marvel memo from Gerry Conway might sound harsh, but I can't imagine what I would have done at 23 years old put in charge of Marvel Comics. It would not have been pretty.

* finally, reading this panel report from C2E2 featuring on-line writers about comics makes me wonder how they know their readers as well as they purport to. Is it just the people that post comments? That's a tiny percentage of any site's readership. Is there something I'm missing? They speak with such confidence on the subject. Oh, well. I'm so, so genuinely grateful for any and all of you that come here, for one post or a thousand, and I'm sorry I don't know most of you that well. By which I mean at all. I hope you don't mind we've told the advertisers that 87 percent of you are rich.
 
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