Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* please note the following important deadlines: NCS Division Award submissions, and the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. Also, if you're a librarian, retailer or educator, there's a survey out there that's just for you.

* occasional CR correspondent Sean Collins points to this post where Curt Purcell reviews the crap out of Josh Simmons' House. His take on the subtle progressions in the relationship sub-plot put my own, entirely-too-facile reading to shame.

* in holy crap news, check out this list of comics folk scheduled to appear at Angouelme. Also, this article suggests that if you haven't already scheduled your train passage to the town, you should start thinking about taking a car. That's a story to watch, I think.

* this comics page survey results list reprinted by Alan Gardner really underlines the fact that a lot of the comics pages out there skew very, very old. At least I can't imagine a lot of twenty-somethings getting behind Hi and Lois; maybe I'm wrong. It's interesting to see another incident of a chilly reception afforded the once super-popular Cathy, although that feature could shed papers for the next ten years and have enough to make a more-than-decent living for its creator.

* not comics: "... 50 monkeys fucking a football..."

* there's a great historical post about Herbert Crowley over at the Comics Comics blog. Any biography that has two sentences like this next to one another

"Though he studied singing in Paris, he could never bring himself to face an audience. Then, while working in a mine, he discovered that he could draw."

is clearly a keeper.

* the writer J. Caleb Mozzocco has a long post up about pornographic comics in general and books by Colleen Coover and Brandon Graham specifically. I wasn't even aware the Graham book existed.

* here are a couple of great posts from Richard Thompson. In one of them, he spotlights an error that made it onto the comics page. I remember back when I was doing a strip we were really excited when this happened because it meant they trusted us not to watch us like hawks anymore. Of course, our strip didn't make it. The second post is one about pen nibs, the mere existence which will excite a small percentage of you way too much.

* finally, a last bit of not comics: the late comedian Bill Hicks has an enormous number of fans among comics people, or at least did in a specific period after his death when his work enjoyed a surge in popularity. Those people will know what I'm talking about when I point to Mark Evanier's post that says the excised David Letterman appearance will be played in full on the Late Show this Friday. That struck me as kind of interesting; I remember reading the Lahr article on the affair in a doctor's office in central Pennsylvania the summer before I moved to Seattle.
 
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