January 16, 2014
Go, Look: Ho, Ho! Snappers!
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Go, Read: Frank Santoro On The Comics Of Bill Boichel
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Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update
Colleen LaRose
was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal court a week ago Monday. Although the woman called "Jihad Jane" proved to be an extremely popular and very interesting story on her own, her connection to the original Danish Cartoons incident was a bit more tenuous than is often assumed.
The cartoonist targeted by LaRose and associated was the artist and art theorist Lars Vilks, who only rarely works with cartoon imagery and to my memory has never made a comic or, really, much of anything close to it. Vilks made his drawings of Muhammed -- including those of him as a dog -- in the wake of the international whirlwind that came with the publication of newspaper cartoons in Denmark that depicted Muhammed in a variety of ways. It was in its own way a creature of original cartoons controversy just as was the reaction and this particular fixation on jihad for which Ms. LaRose was sentenced. LaRose's case was compelling for a number of reasons behind the basic attention-getter of hoping that the result of her and her associates' actions would be the death of someone who made some cartoons: she went to Europe herself at some point, the Internet was employed as the element that connected those in the US; there was what seems like overt recruiting; and there were other groups in other countries that also pursued harm where Vilks was concerned.
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Go, Look: Madeleine Flores Twitter Comic
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Media Regulator In Ecuador Targets Cartoonist Xavier Bonilla
The phrase "media regulator" should send a chill up anyone's spine, but
this story would still be troubling if you swapped out every descriptive phrase for something related to Disney's Country Bears. The idea that a politician in power should be able to advocate against critical art directed at them or things at which they'd prefer art not be directed is maybe the worst trend in international cartooning over the last decade and a half. To institutionalize that in a government role is that much more awful, and that charges be brought against a cartoonist based on such specific readings of material is right up bordering on abominable. As described that is just an awful situation, and I hope that sustained attention to it can bring about its departure.
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Go, Look: Another Mort Meskin-Drawn Western
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Assembled, Zipped, Transferred and Downloaded: Digital News
By Tom Spurgeon
* the kus! people
are trying some digital comics offerings; I like all of these comics.
* I'm not sure I linked to Calvin Reid's
now week-old report on
PW about Comixology's recent run of successful benchmarks reached. No bigger ongoing story in comics than Comixology.
*
someone has started a blog devoted to sex in comics. I'm not sure if I wrote that sentence that way because I don't know who the person is or that I don't think we should know, but I'm going to keep it just like that.
* Gary Tyrrell
notes the rapid and mostly behind-the-scenes growth of Hiveworks.
* not comics: I had not known
that one of the holiday's fairly substantial news stories came from an independent media operator. I know I use the small size of
CR as an excuse not to write or break major news stories, and that's not particularly admirable.
* finally, Dave Kellett
writes about his future plans. This is important to note here because Kellett is an important figure in this world of comics, but it's also worth noting for its orientation recalling Gary Tyrrell's assertion that a way to look at webcomics is as a specific group of talented people enabled by the relationships they forge with their readerships through comics to pursue a variety of different projects.
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Go, Look: Steve McNiven Mini-Gallery
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Missed It: Stunning-Looking J. Campbell Cory Cartoon
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
*
the great Bob Levin on Guy Colwell.
* if you live to be a hundred, you will still enjoy
this Poohdickery index.
* Kiel Phegley talks to
Michel Fiffe. Tim O'Shea talks to
Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver. Blake Hennon talks to
Scott Snyder. Eva Volin talks to
Andrew Aydin. Chris Sims talks to
Mark Waid. Peter Howard talks to
Omar Francia.
* not comics: there is probably some sort of lesson for comics in
how well tabletop games have done with crowd-funding, but I can't figure one out that isn't super-obvious.
* the retailer and industry advocate Brian Hibbs
writes about operating a second store.
* Tom Bondurant writes about a new DC
Secret Origins title as a way to clean up the confusing continuity of the post "New 52" universe in which that company's stories are placed. I would imagine that it could be a useful tool for that if this is actually a goal they decide to pursue with seriousness. I know that kind of thing sounds fussy and odd, but I do remember that as a youth and a younger teen, the time in my life I bought the most superhero comics I would ever buy, this kind of stuff would have discouraged me right out of buying them.
* Jim Johnson on
Batgirl #27. Evan Henry on
EGOs #1. Paul Buhle on
The Best Of Wonder Wart-Hog.
* not comics:
they didn't already have these?
* finally, King Features
puts on display photos of a wide array of work areas used by their cartoonists.
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Happy 55th Birthday, Jon B. Cooke!
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Happy 47th Birthday, Tom Brevoort!
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Happy 30th Birthday, Joseph Lambert!
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Happy 57th Birthday, Ann Nocenti!
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