Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the John Locher Memorial Award has added a $1000 cash prize. I'm all for cartooning awards having cash-prize elements.

* Greg McElhatton on Benjamin Bear In Fuzzy Thinking. some nice-sounding person named Matt on Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010. Rob Clough on Black Eye Vol. 1. John Kane on a bunch of different comics. Faith Erin Hicks -- in comics form -- on Finder. Johanna Draper Carlson on Aquaman #6. Sean Kleefeld on Better Man. Nina Stone on Glory #23. Paul Rainey on Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth By Jack Kirby Vol. 1. J. Caleb Mozzocco on various comics. Kristian Williams on The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks. Todd Klein on Green Lantern #4-5.

* the artist Jesse Hamm talks about popular culture and art, and even gives us an experiment to prove his point. If there's ever to be a cable TV show about this stuff, that show should hire Jesse Hamm.

* Neal Adams writes about the impact of Spider-Man and the early '60s Marvel approach more generally.

* Kate Beaton facilitates a massive link list to a bunch of webcomics being done by her readers, with an emphasis on new work. It's an amazing thing to take in if you have 20 minutes and a computer that can handle opening 75 tabs. I didn't find a bunch of stuff that spoke to me as a reader, but I did find a few comics to bookmark that I'll link to from CR at some point. There's a lot of work out there.

* not comics: well, this sucks. I'm beginning to suspect our corporate overlords are kind of jerks.

* not comics: Joann Sfar won another Cesar, this one for the adaptation of The Rabbi's Cat.

* I find Larry Hagman generally terrifying, so this page of bizarrely-employed photostats of Hagman's head on cartoon bodies made me shriek and hide under my desk.

* articles like this one from Tom McLean, where someone who's been buying comics in serial comic-book form for 26 years wakes up and goes, "Wait a minute; that's sort of stupid" should worry everyone in comics for how much the system by which thousands of people make a living is tied into that specific act of commerce. So many factors cropping up in the last 10-20 years have devalued that way of purchasing comics: the vigorous reduction of the kinds of comics available that way, to the lunacy of raising the prices for them in a recession while in some cases dropping the page count, to the shift in content from the comics as whole objects to the comics as delivery systems for incremental plot development, to a culture that's focused on providing more content for the folks willing to pay for it, to the existence of multiple, cheaper options that bypass the existing system entirely. That way of doing things isn't dancing with its own heat death quite yet, but they're definitely looking at each other from across the room.

* when I say I can't believe the border authorities made Frank Santoro pay something like $11 for running his cartooning course up in Canada, what I mean is I can totally believe the border authorities made Frank Santoro pay something like $11 for running his cartooning course up in Canada.

* aww. Siblings, yeah.

* Ryan Willard profiles Julia Wertz. Robin McConnell talks to Austin English. Milton Griepp (probably) talks to Howard Chaykin.

* Avengers Vs. X-Men may be the next big thing, after all.

* finally, Richard Bruton talks about Zenith as the comic that allowed him to walk through the door marked 2000AD.
 
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