Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I swear this had been announced already, but this post says the Shuster Awards is going to honor the late, great Gene Day with an award devoted to self-publishing. Since that's a good thing, I don't mind mentioning it twice. To be honest, I always think of Gene Day's astonishing and vastly under-appreciated work on mainstream comics as opposed to any self-published material.

* here's a lovely feature on Carol Tyler's forthcoming book You'll Never Know Volume One: A Good And Decent Man and where that fits into her overall efforts to serve veterans via the comics medium.

* the prominent comics blogger Daryl Cagle points out another Mike Lester cartoon that uses super-severe iconography to make its point.

* not comics: I enjoyed this story about a big Hollywood agency picking up a literary agent and the implications for literary agencies in terms of taking deals to that agency. That all makes perfect sense to me.

* finally, I think this essay is onto something that there's a decided lack of looking at superhero comics for what they're saying as opposed to how well they're apparently say it, but I'm not sure this particular piece gets there. There's definitely an undercurrent of "Ewww!" in mainstream comic books, and has been since the early '90s. I could have lived the rest of my life quite happily without seeing the Incredible Hulk (well, the red one) talk about getting serviced by one of Marvel's female superhero characters.
 
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