August 3, 2009
Random Comics New Story Round-Up
* the cartoonist Steve Bissette tends to be one of the more searingly honest interview subjects out there, so I am looking forward to reading
this AV Club piece when I get settled in at work today.
* I totally missed
this Mark Coale interview with Jamie Rich.
* I'm a huge fiend for Rowland Emett, although I prefer the cartoons to the kinetic sculptures which means I get more joy out of the throwaway graphs in most articles on the artist.
Eddie Campbell discusses a new exhibit here.
* speaking of Eddie Campbell,
he notes in typically smart fashion here that Woody Gelman's collections of comics should get some credit for the rough and problematic set of ideas that is the graphic novel simply because of the bookshelf ready standards of those publications.
* also, he
comments in smart and pointed fashion about the Bissette interview linked to above. Is there anything Blogging Eddie Campbell cannot do?
* Superman
supports health care reform. If you don't, you are an enemy of Superman.
* Johanna Draper Carlson takes a look at one of the longstanding marketing truisms:
Marvel's book trade program fairly sucks.
* little Rich Thompson
makes a guest appearance in a Sunday
Lio.
* there's still some cool San Diego Con-related stuff out there. (
CR's collective memory
has migrated to the archives, but
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you have some.) Rob Ullman
has a funny comic up at Richmond, Jamie Coville
has a bunch of MP3s up for your downloading pleasure and Whitney Matheson at Pop Candy
provides the only photo array you'll need to convince (fool) a costume-phobic person you know to attend the show with you next year. It's a nice bunch of photos, generally, too. I had no idea Jennifer Daydreamer was there.
*
this is just never going to work.
* finally,
Jeremy Duncan will turn 16 in Zits. When I was 16 I wrecked my first car, got drunk and was grounded, got drunk and avoided being grounded, was generally surly and unhelpful, obsessed over a girl, obsessed over all girls, gained 80 pounds, lost a close friend to gun violence and thought a lot about whether my own death was to be my own hand, someone's else hand or via a nuclear Armageddon instigated by the Blue Turban-wearing Antichrist spoken of in prophecy by Nostradamus.
Zits is about to get
awesome.
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