Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I totally missed this latest update from Steve Duin on the health of S. Clay Wilson. He's done a wonderful job tracking that.

* There's a ton of inauguration-related stuff up today. The cartoonist Richard Thompson says goodbye to outgoing president George W. Bush in the drawing reproduced in tiny form next to this entry. (Thompson always provides a huge jpeg so you can take a closer look at illustrations like this one.) JP Trostle has a mini-Bush installation going. The Cagle site has its usual round-up. I quite liked Daryl Cagle's personal walk through the Bush Years. Dan Clowes is among Bay Area authors that were asked to reflect on the inauguration; it's a strong piece.

* today marks the seventh day out of the hospital for Carla and Lance Hoffman. Great news.

* I enjoyed reading Sean Kleefeld's piece on racism in comics, although I think there have been a few major, recent comics works that have engaged racism in a way that didn't involve fistfights and laser beams, including off the top of my head Love and Rockets X, King, Satchel Paige, My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down, Berlin Vol. 2 and especially The Boondocks. Maybe I'm not getting him, though.

* finally, I guess some members of the European comics-interested press aren't very happy about the Festival at Angouleme pushing back its award ceremonies to a time by which many of them have traditionally already skedaddled. As I recall, even our own Bart Beaty was on a train by the time the Grand Prix winners were announced on Sunday, and as someone that bails out of San Diego Con on Saturday night or early Sunday morning about 80 percent of the time, I can even sympathize that way. Of course, they're not complaining about that -- "let us leave early" isn't much of a rallying cry -- but the communication to the press of the move given that travel plans are made well in advance.
 
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