Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I can't ever get enough of articles that look at how the newspaper comics strip page developed over the years.

* I totally missed this site of Official Handbook re-dos. Luckily, artist Michel Fiffe tapped my shoulder and pointed it out to me. That's his Dr. Strange.

* totally missed this great picture of Robert Crumb reading the late Harvey Pekar's Cleveland book. I wonder what he thinks of the art by Joseph Remnant.

* Paul Gravett profiles Lebanese cartoonist Joumana Medlej.

* Mark Evanier writes a longish post about his final preparations for this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. As Evanier notes in his own way, in the end it's a comics show and there are limits to how much one should stress over events at a comics show. Speaking of Evanier, I liked his piece on Andy Griffith, and agree with his note that he was tremendously generous on the eponymous TV show in terms of giving focus to his fellow actors. It's hard for me to think of four or five stars at that level that did that, and fewer yet that did so when they could have done quality work with the extra scenes and attention.

* that's a fun cartoon from a great cartoonist.

* Chris Butcher comments on Andrew Wheeler's recent list and criticism of same.

* not comics: Abhay Khosla does a brief write-up on the television show Person Of Interest. That was a show I watched with a family member this past year -- when we're in the same town my family and I like to pick television shows to watch together -- and I enjoyed watching it, even though it's certainly no abiding work of television greatness. But good acting solves a lot of problems and mindless TV isn't a sin. I'd add to Khosla's appraisal that the Jesus guy works on that show in part because he looks like he can move effectively and has a commanding voice (voices are underrated with action stars in the post-Cruise world) and that I suspect that a lot of that show's fans don't really care about the "mythology" of it as much as the show's makers might want us to believe.

* World War Hulk feels like seven or eight years ago to me, not five.

* I think I've read my lifetime's allotment of Phantom comics, but I like this drawing.

* it's difficult not to think that it'd be fun to have all the old character in the public domain when you see a profile like this one.

* not comics: more involved short films in the next round of Marvel-related DVDs sounds like a smart idea to me. I don't even think it has to have future-franchise possibilities.

* finally, I'm kind of full up on "go looks" right now, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't start paying attention to Bully's Detective Comics related tumblr. That's going to be pretty great.
 
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