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June 8, 2017


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Gil Roth talks to Seth.

* here's a pathway to Mark Gruenwald's 9 Principles Of Bad Storytelling.

* Marc Bell draws Fante Bukowski.

* not comics: Willa Paskin writes in defense of lust as a reaction to art. I agree in that every reaction to art should be on the table. The problem is that so much of the writing about attraction and desire given over to an object seems outside the time and attention given other aspects, and in some places, certain realms of superhero comics, a certain kind of desire becomes so privileged the work literally twists to present itself that way.

* a printer that's a bookmobile. It's like my two favorite places when I was a kid folded into one.

* finally, here's a nice reminder that sometimes Schulz had Charlie Brown win an argument or two, usually to great sentimental effect.
 
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