Go, Read: Never Forget The Pain Felt By So Many Creators

* someone e-mailed this Norma Haimes Martin piece on the joys and struggles she shared with her late husband, the great gag cartoonist Don Martin. As rights situations improve in many ways, it feels ungenerous to remind ourselves of the real pain and dismay felt by creators who had to deal with restrictive contracts or aggressively inhumane policies, many right into the grave. But remind ourselves we must, even and maybe especially with a heroic figure like William Gaines.

* another thing to remember is that at times basic economic circumstance, industry infrastructure and the collective taste of current comics' customers can be as dismaying as outright fuckery when it's your career that seems to find itself on the outside looking in. At least that's how I read this statement from Ted McKeever about his moving on from comics, if not forever than for the immediate future. McKeever has been doing a lot of personally-informed, very idiosyncratic comics for the last several, and it's always a shame when that kind of personal expressions seems unable to find its best audience.
 
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