Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I love these original Frank King watercolors of Gasoline Alley characters.

* Hannah Means-Shannon talks to Rich Tommaso. I think I already linked to this Sam Marx talk with Ed Luce, but I like Luce so I'm going to risk running it twice rather than look that up. Jason Sacks talks to Nate Powell. Laura Hudson profiles Jason Shiga. Michael Cavna talks to Nate Powell specifically about the passage of laws in Indiana that until they went over like lead balloon were 100 percent presented as providing religious people with the legal backing to petition the courts for exemption from serving people with whose lifestyle they disagree. I still believe that's the intention, by the way, I just don't see another pressing, positive formulation. Powell is based in Bloomington. Paul Gravett talks to Dylan Horrocks and Maurice Vellekoop, both super-nice gentlemen of comics.

* Meryl Jaffe writes about using Aya: Life In Yop City as a way to spotlight its very specific moment in history.

* the always-very-funny Hayley Campbell writes about things learned from working in a comic book store. This is one of my potential careers in hell, so I'm grateful for the article. I hope it's received in a way that matches its bouncy tone rather than as a somber, pre-pogrom declaration of intent.

* Rafi Schwartz points out a contest of potential interest to female comics-makers. I tend to think contests are a bad idea, but I can see how this might be a good one so I want to mention it.

* here's an article that was suggested to me by two of you who roughly had the same idea: that is presented Leroy Neiman as a visual journalist in addition to his more well-known career as a kind of pop painter of sporting events. I think that's true of a lot of the illustrators that were magazine from the 1930s into the 1970s. The way we understand comics now there's work by Steinberg, Hirschfeld and Steadman that clearly fits into a kind of "comics journalism" to use that horrible phrase. That seems true of some of what Neiman was doing.

* finally, here is Priscilla Frank's much linked-to guide to contemporary queer comics-makers.
 
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