Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* registration is open for the Comics & Medicine conference taking place on the campus of Northwestern University. You can read all about what sounds like an intriguing couple of days here.

* Daryl Cagle has one of his interesting slideshows up, this one on the political turmoil in Wisconsin over Scott Walker's move to de-legitimize the collective bargaining power of public unions. It's always fascinating to take the temperature of the editorial cartoonists on a divisive issues.

* over at Comics Alliance, John Parker makes the case for the late-'60s Silver Surfer series as a key, if not the key, comic in Stan Lee's career.

* this post at Newsarama's blog suggests that Boom! may face a challenge in its use of the name Kaboom! for its kids comics line.

* Matt Seneca reprints a Steve Ditko drawing of Superman, which he suggests is the only Ditko portrait of that character that was ever published.

* here's an unexpected pleasure: Greg Cook writes about Edward Gorey.

* Robert Crumb on Chester Brown.

* Words Without Borders talks to Fantagraphics co-publisher and general force for good Kim Thompson about translating comics and the life experiences that make him a natural for those sorts of gigs.

* I love the green in this M. Jean image. It's like the green you used to get after doing an experiment in a home chemistry set.

* Gina Gagliano suggests here that one way of looking at why kids need to read comics is by seeing it as an extension of all of the reasons they need to read, period.

* if you're an accredited, degree-bearing librarian that loves and knows comics and can lift 40 pounds, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has a sweet, sweet gig for you.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco asks that you stop for a moment and recognize the awesomeness of Dennis Culver.

* not comics: Alan Gardner catches a book charts-success for illustrator and cartoonist Wes Hargis.

* Chris Butcher reads and pulls a quote from the late William Gaines.

* finally, Jill Pantozzi suggests that we appreciate creators now as opposed to waiting until after they're gone. Tom Brevoort suggests one way people can do just that.
 
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