Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* big KAL week. Kevin Kallaugher writes about when cartoons matter. He also presented in Romania.

* go, bookmark: the writer James Hudnall has launched a comics-related podcast, featuring talks with comics creators like Val Mayerik (sketch pictured) and Peter Bagge.

* Matt Seneca is serving up comics.

* the Open Book Toronto people profile Dave Lapp. Danno Klonowski talks to Mike Toft. Brian Bendis talks to Greg Rucka. Kira Cochrane talks to Alison Bechdel. Alex Dueben talks to Alison Bechdel.

* McSweeney's had a contest going that featured an insulting pay rate, even by the debased nature of those things as it exists today; it's now withdrawn.

* nothing better than a Frank Santoro post from on the road, this time from the great city of Pittsburgh. Speaking of Santoro, here's a Dustin Harbin post about the cartoonist's correspondence courses.

* not comics: you've been reading writer-about-comics Bob Levin's articles about his heart troubles, haven't you?

* speaking of writers-about-comics, I believe RC Harvey turns 75 this year. He's writing about some of the classics with renewed vigor and passion at TCJ, as in this article about VT Hamlin. VT Hamlin drew like he was cutting foam out of air.

* not comics: in the UK, their Tucker Stones review big-budget motion pictures for major news publications. Someday, America. Someday.

* Jeet Heer on Cartoon Monarch. Ron Goulart on Betsy And Me. Nick Gazin on a bunch of comics and comics-related stuff. Cian O'Luanaigh on Science Tales. Killian Fox on Science Tales. Cory Doctorow on Science Tales. Tim Nelson on Science Tales. Todd Klein on Mystery In Space #1. Mike Sterling on the Avengers movie.

* this article on editorial cartoonist Joel Pett angering Kentucky basketball fans crossed my browser the day it was written, but I hadn't linked to it because it struck me as intensely silly and sad. I'm still enough of a midwesterner to know how sports and basketball and even pop culture can grow to matter in people's lives so that they comment on such things as if they're real issues. On the other hand, I have enough coast-time in to see these things as huge extravagances in a time of national decline.

* Evan Dorkin writes for several graphs on The Abomination. That was a very troubling design to me when I was a kid. He also notes that one of his classic gag cartoons is now featured on a t-shirt.

* I've said it before, but I love these rambling Brandon Graham blog posts that feel like they came straight out of some Internet bubbled preserving the way thing were done 10-11 years ago.

* Godzilla gets all the good artists.

* finally, Jason draws Guadalupe, an all-time underrated kid character.
 
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