Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Sean T. Collins talks about the great comics short "Here," on the occasion of it being posted on the Rutgers University web site for a class to have access to it.

* the talented kids from the Pizza Island collective took a road trip to go figure drawing for an evening.

* Don MacPherson's post on the forthcoming Fear Itself event series suggests the Big Two may be running out of titles. The first part of the post may be of interest to those of you tracking the way mainstream comics are marketed. MacPherson points out that other than the quality of the core creative team, there may not be a whole lot of ways to promote this book in a way that appeals to a knowledgeable comics fan.

* Andrew Wheeler reads the editorial cartoons so you don't have to.

* not comics: that Chris Ware poster for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a hell of a thing.

* Martin Wisse comments on my commentary about that recent Gareb Shamus interview. The man has a point. More of the same from Shamus starting here, although the questions are more confrontational in nature so that's sort of interesting. I believe in giving Wizard credit for its successes, but I severely dislike the notion floated in both interviews that Wizard was ever some sort of rallying-point industry leader. It's nonsensical. In fact, I feel it shouldn't be paid any serious attention until someone floats a model for Wizard's implied leadership that encompasses the severe and sickening 1990s crash and burn along with the early-'90s and mid-'00s surges.

* even if you have no interest in listening to Inkstuds' new interview with Al Columbia, you should maybe go and stare at the art that accompanies the post about it. Whoa.

* not comics: again via Sean T. Collins comes this fun, fan-art fantasy map. Staring at fantasy maps was a way a lot of kids in the 1970s and early 1980s had a sort-of comics experience without knowing that we were having a sort-of comics experience (Dylan Horrocks had to clue us in).

* finally, over at Same Hat!, a translated Go Nagai comic in an issue of Epic Illustrated is discussed and reprinted.
 
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