Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the former syndicated strip cartoonist Aaron McGruder issues a response to claims he said Barack Obama wasn't black because he wasn't a descendant of slaves.

* I did not know that in addition to doing his law-related comics, Stu Rees does legal work on behalf of cartoonists. Hopefully not this kind.

* not comics: the read of the day is probably this passionate beatdown from Derek Kirk Kim directed at the producers of a movie version of a cartoon Airbender, The Last Avatar for casting as Caucasian a cast the cartoon would have you believe is Asian. I only know this movie as director M. Night Shyamalan's attempt to re-establish his career as an A-list hitmaker after punishing audiences with awful movies like that recent Marky Mark Vs. The Ents fiasco. So clearly this film should be destroyed. Seriously, though, the thoroughness of the casting decisions really makes it seem like some sort of conscious decision was made. If you're list-averse, like I am, Kim provides information through which you can object to this thing in more personal fashion.

* the writer Mark Evanier has an essay up about the 2005 passing of fan and artist Bernie Zuber. There's a link in Evanier's piece to a mental health-related site where Zuber opines about the similarities between the mentally ill and members of fandom.

* finally, I totally missed this depressing article that officials in the UK are moving to better establish drawn images of horrible, horrible things as against the law. I find this kind of thing to always be a bad idea, no matter how much people fume at me with all of the immense cultural and emotional power of tragic child abuse at their exposure when it comes to fueling their scowls.
 
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