Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* heads up: applications for the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship are due today.

* Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie are making a joint appearance at Gosh! on February 2 to celebrate the UK release of Lost Girls; this is worth mentioning because of the extreme rarity of Alan Moore making this (or any, really) kind of appearance.

* James Vance takes a look at the superhero comic book's connection with the older adventure/pulp tradition, including an unexpected mid-essay appreciation for Dell's Brain Boy.

* Nat Gertler writes in to cure my befuddlement over the Captain Billy's Whiz Bang publication arriving in Direct Market stores yesterday. "It's a reprint of the February, 1922 issue of that (in)famous mag. I'd used the term 'historical' rather than 'nostalgia', as it's not aimed at people who have fond memories of it (they'd be a little long in the tooth) and more at those curious about it."

* the cartoonist Adrian Tomine is on NPR's Fresh Air program today.

* unlike Mike Allred, Pia Guerra doesn't have a spinner rack.

* more coverage here of the forthcoming comics "sit-in" planned for February 10 by which several cartoonists plan on protesting the way their strips are perceived and purchased according to race. The participating cartoonists are Darrin Bell (Candorville), Cory Thomas (Watch Your Head), Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucaracha), Steve Bentley (Herb and Jamaal), Jerry Craft (Mama's Boyz), Charlos Gary (Working It Out and Cafe Con Leche), Keith Knight (K Chronicles), and Stephen Watkins (Housebroken).

* there's probably something profound in this anecdote about a comics retail employee making an AIDS joke to a customer who simply wanted to buy a comic book, but I'm not sure I want to think about it for as long as it takes to figure it out.
 
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