Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to Ellen Forney for winning the Seattle Weekly' best local cartoonist title. Seattle's one of those cities where there's enough cartoonists for that to really mean something.

* a site called Western Fictioneers names the top ten western comic books of all time. I'd go the Blueberry books one and Boys' Ranch #2, but maybe that's just me.

* the writer and reviewer Graeme McMillan recommends the Stan Lee line at BOOM!. Kevin Czap also has love in his heart, but it's for the cartoonist Joseph Lambert.

* not comics: sheesh. I have never in my life looked at a hobo and connected that to a present-day poor person, just as I've never looked at a Roger Langridge drawing of a stock vaudevillian and thought "modern reality show TV star." I say this as an actual, real-life, present-day poor person.

* I think I got this at TCJ: Ernesto Priego unearths a decade-old interview with Joe Sacco. I know I got this not-comics one at TCJ: Jonathan Rosenbaum on Walt Disney.

* it's always a good time when Drew Friedman draws Tor Johnson.

* do you remember indie comics promotional images? I still have an envelope full of posters from that era buried in the back room somewhere.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco fixes the forthcoming Action Comics #1 covers. That second one strikes me as a pretty awful cover, actually.

* Chris Allen explains why he won't be reviewing any Marvel-related material for a while.

* it's easy to make fun of deals like this between Marvel and kitchen implement supplier par excellence Williams-Sonoma, but I continue to swear the second-biggest difference between this version of Marvel and previous attempts to get the company over is the quality of its licensing partners. This one is no exception.

* that Walker Bean book is an admirable book.

* I wonder who got this job?

* finally, Alan Gardner points out the flaw in Stephan Pastis' plan to off Jerry Scott.
 
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