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January 18, 2016


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* go, read: Frank Santoro on Small Press Comics Explosion.

image* J. Caleb Mozzocco on Marvel 1872. Kawai Shen on a pair of comics from Gina Wynbrandt.

* this 12-pack of OK Cola and accompanying promotional materials is the best thing I've seen up for auction for a while.

* Johanna Draper Carlson reminds us of the creative costs of our current corporate-pleasing copyright laws, utilizing some smart Kurt Busiek tweets in support.

* John Porcellino reminds us that Spit And A Half was a music distributor for a while and a lot of that stuff is available via streaming now.

* festivals extra: Paul Gravett notes an exhibition of Naoki Urasawa's work in Tokyo.

* Lisa Hanawalt draws the Hulk. Laura Park draws a clever four-panel cartoon. Tony Millionaire draws Elvis.

* hard to imagine how fun it would be to take an illustration course from Steve Brodner.

* finally a by request extra: Chris Pitzer of AdHouse Books wrote me a short note that he was going to contribute to this Risograph-focused crowd-funder out of a sense of local pride, and asked me to publish a link so more people know about it. Done.
 
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