Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to that nice man Justin Hall on his new teaching position.

* Henry Chamberlain on Pablo.

* not comics: Sarah McIntyre continues the campaign on behalf of the artists half of writer/artist kids book teams.

* the tone of this article intrigues me. Rather than treating Disney's mishandling of its both-sex and girls merchandising by emphasizing old, dumb-assed and unrealistic gender expectations as a lost opportunity for a dumb, old company that is screwing up and throwing money down a hole, the tone in the piece is more that Disney is malevolently doing something by denying people their toys. I encounter very aggressive articles about culture war every day, so it's not like I think it's a bankrupt position, just surprising here. After encountering the tone I thought there would be some inner memorandum work or something more of a smoking gun and not just vague statements about ways of doing business and celebrity tweets. There wasn't. The thought of a company not making something as something that's being done to you is still a slightly foreign concept to me beyond extreme expressions of it, likely in part because I benefit from everything being made for me (less so as I'm older). All that said, they should just make some toys for these kids; that's gotta be frustrating for parents that help their kid buy in and want to extend/expand that experience. There's likely also a lesson here in consolidation of expression, how this kind of thing is even possible only when a company makes so much money that losing several tens of millions doesn't even register. It might also be worth noting that male kids can attach to female characters in a big way, too, like I did with Kitty Pryde when I was 10, 11, 12.

* I, on the other hand, never read what you wrote because other than writing this blog all I do is look at pictures of celebrities.

* hey, hey, it's Tina Fey.

* Cameron Hathaway talks to Penelope Bagieu.

* finally, this looks like a good springboard from which to see a lot of nice art. I don't remember which one pinterest is or how it works, but I'm assuming it's somewhat user-friendly.
 
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