Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I hope that as many of you that are interested are reading Charles Soule's essays on the about-to-expire critical-darling superhero series She-Hulk.

* John Wenzel talks to Noah Van Sciver. CG talks to Whit Taylor. Michael Cavna talks to Scott McCloud. Ian McQuaid talks to Daniel Clowes.

* here's an update on that heartbreaking Jim Wheelock story; or, rather, a re-iteration of basic facts. That's a terrible thing to have happened, and I hope for the best possible outcome.

* Emily Nordling on The Sculptor. David Press on Casanova: Avaritia #1.

* Daniel Elkin on Colin Smith on comics criticism. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that I wasn't interested in criticism as much as simply writing about comics. Of course, soon after making that realization, my productivity plummeted.

* everyone in this article comes off pretty poorly, at least according to my initial reading. I think that's mostly how it's written, as clearly the artist ripping off Scott Teplin is in the wrong in terms here. No matter how anyone comes across in any article, how much appropriation is fair appropriation strikes me as always being a worthwhile subject, and this is a pretty good example of both this kind of activity and the kind of verbal back-and-forth which can occlude a simple, rational adjudication of what's going on.

* one from late last year that's popped back up: Sarah McIntyre writes about the word "author" and how it can be problematic when describing the creation of illustrated or comics work because of how we process it in terms of it being a prose term. This is a subject I find endlessly fascinating.

* not sure how this ended up in my bookmarks, but a lot of attractive art here.

* finally, here's a call for submissions regarding Queer History Comics.
 
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