Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* on our new president 01: This is interesting. the Associated Press apparently owns the image which is the underlying photo used in the Obama/HOPE poster. I just assumed that it was given to the artist.

* on our new president 02: apparently Dan Clowes drew him for Newsweek. I'd just re-run the image, but that would be kind of jive.

* on our new president 03: More from Daryl Cagle on the difficulty of drawing President Obama. Kudos to Cagle for slagging cartoonists that whine about the difficulties of drawing the new President. On the other hand, I'm a little uncomfortable with his including some folks drawing blue lips on President Obama as part of some overall difficulty in depicting the man in reasonable fashion to a hyper-critical audience. Blue lips is apparently an old-timey insult and general racist caricature. I was unaware of this, and I can't imagine anyone's use of the technique was intentional. However, I think when something like that happens you just sort of recognize that it's deeply unfortunate, apologize and stop it. Stuff like this happens. My brother was in a play once where they let some of the kids improvise their dialogue and one of them kept talking about going to see the red lights. So of course the parents in attendance thought this was a Red Light District joke. It wasn't, but the director still told the kid to knock it off and had no problem doing so.

* OTBP: there's a comic about the polio vaccine in this month's issue of Rotarian. Yes, I read Rotarian. I think more people in comics should belong to Rotary. Actually, does .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) What about Moose, Elks or Eagles?

* I can't recall seeing a photo of Ralf Konig before. What a funny cartoonist that guy is.

* on our new president postscript: it just occurred to me if anyone out there in the editorial cartoon realm is feeling absolutely comfortable going right after President Obama, it's probably Pat Oliphant. Like him or lump him, that guy has pick fights with much larger and younger men in an elevator when everybody's been drinking tendencies. Let's double-check: Yep.

* finally, I wanted to mention something that didn't make it into my more formal posts on Reed Exhibition putting a show into Chicago. While the economy certainly isn't at this moment favorable to a new comics show, it occurs to me that Reed may see some make-up for this disadvantage by choosing to have the convention at Chicago's downtown McCormick Place. The convention business is severely competitive right now, with traditional locations like downtown Chicago losing out to warm-weather sites for a dozen years now and more recently seeing the effects of virtual conventions and reduced convention schedules. I have to imagine that the Chicago tourism board and McCormick Place -- a facility having just come off some mid-decade upgrades -- are going to be extremely amenable partners for Reed.
 
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