Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* not comics: I didn't notice until much later than everyone else that the actor Adam West passed away. West had an important role in comics history as the face of the 1960s Batman TV show that for many fans that longed to have their interest in comics validated was a horror show of juvenile, wink-wink humor and outsized cheesiness. A number of those fans shaped the more seriously intended comics-making of the 1980s and 1990s, even as interest in the friendly, goofy and immensely popular West version of the character began to grow in counter-reputation. He had broad shoulders and a great voice.

* it might just be me, but the editorial cartoons that make me the most uncomfortable are those that discourage further inquiry with a summary statement of something's sizzle value. It just seems like such a capitulation to scorecard politics that my heart aches for any cartoonist that goes there.

* missed it: Joe Sacco and Chris Hedges spoke on hate crimes and American racism in late May.

* finally, Derf has a few words for the most trolled cartoonist in the world about how super-shitty it is to mock someone else being trolled.
 
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