A Few Notes on Wicks ‘Toon Tussle

* There are a number of updates and supplementary stories on the fight by the heirs of Ben Wicks and the people that found the comics left on the Wicks' old property, most notably here.

* Eddie Campbell wrote in to suggest that we maybe shouldn't judge the Wicks children for storing their father's work in garbage bags, as some garbage bags have a light-reflection and humidity-controlling element to them that makes them a good place to put original art.

* Campbell also notes that it's his understanding that Australia has a law by which the Wicks work would have been returned without all this fuss.

* Marc Arsenault wrote in to pass on this link from Neil Gaiman on writers protecting their property in a way that gives it a better chance to be stewarded properly after their passing, the kind of planning which likely applies to cartoonist and their work.

* Somebody whose e-mail I can't find -- Dave Knott, maybe? -- wrote in to say my unintentionally snotty (I was trying for sober) line about there not being a huge audience out there for a big Wicks collection is true but for the exact opposite reason my statement could have been read to suggest. The one thing likely to drive down demand of another big Wicks collection is the fact the work has already been published out the wazoo.
 
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