Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Charles Schulz's rise to prominence is one of the moments that defines the state of Minnesota.

* the great Lynda Barry is profiled in the New York Times. The writer, Carol Kino, does a particularly admirable job in summarizing Barry's hard-to-pin-down new book from Drawn and Quarterly, What It Is, in a way that makes it sound compelling, which it is.

* another go-round of Science Idol announced.

* I thought this piece was way more thoughtful a criticism of Marvel Comics than I'm used to seeing from anyone, let alone a newspaper. It ties in some of the unfortunate aspects of the old comics with several little talked-about aspects of the new. It basically says that a lot of them are jingoistic, which is something I feel occasionally when I read certain Marvel comics. It's to the point where I wonder if progressive ideas, which I know many of their writers espouse in general, can even be articulated through Marvel's characters and their modern take on plot-lines. Anyway, good short article for a general audience, no less. Plus the Stephen Colbert stuff is pretty funny; that guy has a future.

* I totally missed this.

* finally, J. Caleb Mozzocco took notes at the Scott McCloud/Jeff Smith joint appearance/interview in middle Ohio, with interesting results. I appreciate Jeff's endorsement of this site, and the casual honesty of both cartoonists when it comes to subjects like making money on the Internet.
 
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