Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* someone at The Onion is a Ruben Bolling fan.

* Timothy Callahan begins a very long look at the Daredevil title that's been coming out pretty regularly from Marvel Comics since like 1964, one of those on-line series that just a bit too long and too focused to match my interest but I can imagine yielding insight for the primary reason I won't be reading. Someone needs to do a long storyline about Daredevil being consistently foiled by a shadowy underworld figure and then we find out that figure is Mike Murdock. Although that's probably already been done. Twice.

* speaking of comics like Daredevil (but not actually Daredevil), the writer JM DeMatteis shares two long-ago reviews of great Marvel comics efforts.

* a missing carol carol comic.

* not comics: these Hellen Jo buttons look pretty cool.

* the cartoonist David King fills in for fellow cartoonist Dustin Harbin. David King is one of the fine, consistent, underrated cartoonists of our time.

* you could buy 15 of these, split into teams of four, serve beer and have a really good hour of convention programming. Just saying.

* not comics: I frequently compare the musical's place within theater to the superheroes place within comic books, but it wasn't until reading this post by Mark Evanier about a roundtable to pick the greatest American musical that I realized another thing those two forms share for me: they're ultimately unsatisfying. For the record, I guess Guys & Dolls is the sturdiest show. It offers up three meaty leads, five memorable musical numbers, a killer dance scene and a perfectly satisfying supporting role (the wonderfully-named Nicely-Nicely Johnson), but I'm not even sure it's all that great. In fact, none of the musicals I enjoy -- Guys & Dolls, Sweeney Todd, The Fantasticks, Cabaret, Sunday In The Park With George -- really compare with the plays I admire, like Arcadia or True West or The Dumb Waiter. When it comes to plays like Uncle Vanya, those seem to exist on another planet.

* also not comics: this, of course, is my favorite American musical number, and it's not even in a musical.

* I don't recall Tastuya Ishidi doing too many interview/profiles.

* Matthias Wivel has been killing it lately, and here provides his take on how we should look at Jimmy Corrigan given all the Chris Ware work that's come since. It has me very tempted to pull Ware's first major book from the shelves this weekend, especially with ACME Novelty Library #20 on the mind.

* finally, if I had a bunch of money, I'd be tempted to spend a significant amount of it on Dan Zettwoch, just so he'd keep making posters.
 
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