Go, Consume: Bits of Comics History
* columnist Abhay Khosla's recent post at Savage Critics about the cartoonist Percy Crosby, one of America's most popular comic strip creators who spent the last years of his life institutionalized, resulted in an equally enlightening post from Eddie Campbell quoting from Jerry Robinson's Skippy and Percy Crosby. Does anyone out there know what became of Robinson's plans to have that 1978 book re-published?
* it's more publishing news than history, but since the publication of English-language versions of manga more than a decade old is so rare, I'll let it count: IDW will be publishing Kazuo Umezu's odd and unsettling 1960s word Reptilia.
* although I'm not sure why they're farming these out rather than archiving them on their own site, it's hard to care when you get a chance to listen to this 1992 super-daffy encounter between Todd McFarlane and Gary Groth, one of the most entertaining confrontations between comics personalities in the modern era.
