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* go, read: how much do you spend on comics?

* go, buy: today's New York Times Book Review has a piece on Shortcomings that kind of ignores entirely the fact that it's a comic book, which is an amazing thing if you read a lot of these kinds of reviews. If like me you read many publications of this type while standing in a grocery store or in the aisles of a big-box bookstore, the page looks like that image at right but a lot bigger. I'd blow it up into legibility, but that would be stealing.

* go, look: this is a well-written survey article about political storylines in modern superhero comics, which manages to point out a lot of inherent difficulties when it comes to representing political ideas because of the basic superhero concept and established set-up for 99 percent of those characters. As an aside -- did Black Adam really kill everybody in an entire nation? That sounds ridiculous and depressing. How could anyone bear to live in a world where some dude kills an entire country with -- I'm guessing -- his bare hands? How is that not that number one preoccupation of everybody in the entire world for the next ten years? I would sleep a lot and cry frequently if I lived on a superhero's Earth.

* go, bookmark: I don't think I agree with any of the views I see brought to life in Patrick O'Connor's cartoons, but they're lively; his blog provides a lot of ongoing talk about process, which I think could be a really beneficial thing for young cartoonists as well as fans of the medium interested in that perspective. (thanks to Pam Noles for the heads up)

* go, read: Brian Wood on the Lucca Comics Festival. It's worth it for both his super-positive impression of the general scene and how impressed he was with the level of craft he was seeing from the artists he met.
 
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