Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Thought Balloonists blog unpacks another one of its features -- close readings of individual comics pages -- with a look at a page from Carol Tyler.

* Whenever Disney intersects with comics you usually end up with a few long articles, usually from the Disney side of the equation. I enjoyed this article on the nearly three-decade life of the Uncle Remus strip.

* this profile of Louise and Walt Simonson should be read if only for Louise's succinct take on comics' cyclical popularity.

* the editorial cartoonist Clay Bennett holds forth in a Tennessee business magazine whose logo makes it hard for me to figure out exactly what it's called on a variety of issue: his own surprising move from Boston to Chattanooga, what papers need to do to get readers back, how the Internet has changed everything. Solid, smart responses from Bennett.

* the writer Dave Astor surveys a bunch of white cartoonists about a move that black syndicated cartoonists will make next month to satirize and therefore draw attention to how they're perceived and purchased as "black strips" above and beyond any of their individual merits. I'm kind of with Mark Tatulli on this one, but I'm sympathetic to the idea and the effort.

* I know, I know, it's cretinous: Bobby Fischer on historietas.
 
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