* yesterday's post linking to Bhob Stewart talking about Jack Kirby's Jack Ruby comic in Esquire fairly skipped over this killer jpeg of a chart of late 1960s comics critics' opinions on various comics. This is interesting to stare at even if you're not enough of a nerd to recognize every critic that made the list (like I did) in that a lot of comics readers have read a lot of these comics. Plus it's nice to know that the superhero fan/alt comics fan split predated The Comics Journal by at least eight years.
* I'm not sure what's funnier in this post about recent Cul-De-Sac strips from cartoonist Richard Thompson: the pride with which he proclaims his satisfaction at drawing a contrabassoon, or the photo he provides as proof.
* Ben Towle writes about simplification and recognition with color.
* the Blog@Newsarama talks about potential creative teams for DC's Captain Marvel character. It'd be nice to have those characters fully submersed into DC's efforts to reach kids with some of their comic books, as opposed to grim and gritty versions sprinkled throughout the mainstream DC universe. That always gets creepy with such familiar kids' comics characters.
* finally, Richard Cook walks down memory lane, albeit a peculiar path that leads right to the Marvel swimsuit specials of the 1990s. I remember spotlighting Marvel's matter-of-fact use of two gay characters as models and working like mad for like 36 hours trying to find language that wouldn't potentially offend someone who would think I was making fun of Marvel or those characters. I also remember I had been reading comics for 20 years and I hadn't heard of the second gay character they used (a supporting character from a minor super-team used in that era's Incredible Hulk comics).
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