August 3, 2011
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
*
congratulations to Tucker Stone on five years of blogging. The only thing better than five years of blogging is quitting at four years, but I bet Tucker already knows that.
* Chris Oliveros wrote a nice note
here about Seth's 20th anniversary publishing
Palooka-Ville through Drawn & Quarterly. That's quite an achievement in the alt-comics world, and congratulation to Seth and his publisher. Speaking of D+Q, the Doug Wright Awards
picked up right away on news of a new
Nipper. The artwork from Wright during the period covered is pretty unbelievably sharp.
* the great Paul Gravett reviews work featuring (in different ways) two formidable British writers:
Alan Moore,
Grant Morrison.
* Philip Nel calls
this article on Crockett Johnson the most thorough look at his life yet published, and I'm not going to argue with him.
* I love the species of feature know as the "Local Cartoonist Profile."
Here's one of Hy Eisman.
*
not comics: nice tattoo. From the same site,
a look back at one of that handful of English language underground manga anthologies that came out several years ago.
* a few of you e-mailed me
this article profiling a smattering of webcomics cartoonists based on their ability to make a living from their work. That usually means someone had it first, and I apologize to that person.
* Johanna Draper Carlson caught
that Image redesigned their site and has included digital purchase links. I assume everyone will be doing that soon, although three years ago I would have assumed that everyone would have done that by now.
* two noteworthy reviews of the Fantagraphics
Peanuts: one from
a hipster dad, one from
a dad and his daughter.
* the first sentence of
this blog post by J. Caleb Mozzocco made me laugh. I'm not sure I understood much of what follows.
* I don't think I've ever read or listed to
an interview with Kevin O'Neill.
* the critic Rob Clough
recommends Jeff Zwirek's kickstarter fund-raiser.
* over at
Comic Riffs, Michael Cavna
picks six effective cartoons about the debt ceiling stand-off or whatever the hell that was that I kept fleeing with my remote control. I like the Toles.
* someone please use
The Big Alvin.
* finally, you're reading Brian Ralph's diary comics about Comic-Con over at
TCJ, right?
Here's day two.
Here's day three.
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