Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* so Al Hirschfeld's iconic New York residence was sold, for a price over $5 million. I doubt Hirschfeld paid that much.

* happy five-year anniversary to the routinely stupendous sketchblog kept by Mattias Adolfsson. And it looks like there's a book now.

* mostly not comics: I don't know if it's the summer convention shopping season or what, but it seems like there's a bunch of nice stuff out there to buy from individual cartoonists. Dan Zettwoch has a print of Pee-Wee Herman's best bike in the world. Theo Ellsworth unearthed a few copies of Thought Cloud Shrines. Joseph Lambert has a nice-looking very affordable print for sale as well as a bunch of original art. I'm not sure if or exactly how she's selling them, but Lucy Knisley has another Harry Potter poster up. I'm sure there are a ton more, but those are the ones that jumped out at me doing the rounds this morning.

* you know, Fables has done really, really well for DC.

* speaking of DC: I'm not really a consumer of their superhero comics, so my vote certainly doesn't count, but I always have a negative fannish reaction to seeing the old World War II-era characters walking around in the company's modern adventures. For one thing, and I've written this a bunch of times now, the culture of celebrity would favor those characters over ostensibly more important modern heroes like 10,000 to one, the same way that coverage in the real world currently favors older athletes within team sports. (If you think that football coverage favors a Brett Favre over a Josh Freeman now, imagine if Johnny Unitas were still out there leading fourth-quarter comebacks.) Plus it just sort of seems lame to me. Is there a good story behind any of that stuff, or are those characters just sort of there?

* David Brothers discusses some of those super-solid Hellboy comics that everyone likes but very few people take the time to explain why. Speaking of taking time to explain the why of something, this piece does just that for a recent Alan Davis mainstream illustration gig.

* not comics: some notes on the state of the digital transformation of newspapers. Even when they're full of good news, these kinds of articles depress me, and I'm not certain why.

* what it looks like when you get a professional photographer to take pictures at your con.

* finally, Kevin Huizenga is indeed amazing.
 
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