Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics news site ActuaBD.com has an update on the Uderzo family's battles over Asterix. I find this story quite depressing.

* the cartoonist Jeremy Eaton recalls drawing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with his 90-year-old grandfather.

* the cartoonist and blogger Mike Lynch digs up an older post where an author is mad that he's not allowed to use someone's comics work the way he would like, and feels he owed that usage because of his past patronage. It's a fun post because the author Lynch discusses seems to be working from The Big Book Of Internet Usage Cliches. As I've stated in the past, I think it's an issue of creators rights, both supporting creators in what they want to do with their creations no matter how much we feel we know better, and holding them to the contracts they sign no matter how much they don't care if we do so.

* I love cartoonists, but the Times policy doesn't sound at all unreasonable to me. Someone had to write that Daily Show sketch, too.

* a few folks out there have linked to these Stan Lee fumetti strips. My memory is dim about this stuff at this point, but I believe Lee self-published some fumetti comics in the early 1960s and tried at least one syndicated strip with same -- once in the 1970s (the linked-to strips), but maybe an earlier one in the 1960s, too. The one in the 1970s came during that period when he was trying out a lot of side projects. I think what's interesting about Lee's fumetti stuff is that if you think about it, writing gags over pictures isn't unlike scripting in the classic Marvel style. Also, I seem to recall that the '70s iteration died when it proved a lot more difficult than it used to be to get easy and free access to pictures of celebrities and other famous people.

* not comics: all respect to writer, editor and purported Element Lad fan Robert Drake on surviving 10 years after the hate crime visited upon him.

* finally, Tom Richmond's reply to a funny posting on the Cracked site about MAD going quarterly may be too defensive for some people, but I found it got at the heart of one side-issue regarding that publishing move. No matter what shape MAD takes as a publication and as a brand, I think it's okay to be depressed about and miss the monthly comics magazine, because that's its own thing.
 
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