Good News News Stories: S. Clay Wilson, William & Nadine Messner-Loebs

* the writer Steve Duin reported late last week that the underground comix giant S. Clay Wilson was moved out of intensive care after a several-day stay following his being brought to the hospital with severe brain injuries. As the article reports, this basically means the doctors think he's not in immediate danger of dying, although the full extent of potential damage to the cartoonist's mental faculties has yet to be determined. As always with someone that's ill or injured, the news could have changed between now and then, but this is good news. Plus: Checkered Demon Pool Cue.

* this highly linked-to profile of William Messner-Loebs shows how much the cartoonist has rallied professionally and personally since articles a few years back rallying industry support to what sounded like a dire financial and potentially dangerous health situation for the one-time prominent mainstream comics writer and his wife, Nadine. One particularly great thing for readers about this revival of interest and all the Messner-Loebs work that's either come out or is about about to is that IDW has been collecting his Journey comic in massive, affordable tomes. That work seems just as odd and wonderful and totally out of place now as it did during its initial serialization.
 
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