Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Michael Cavna has responses to this years NCS Reubens slate. I'm not sure I'd seen this year's poster.

* Jason Azzopardi on The Secret Science Alliance And The Copycat Crook. Greg Burgas on Calling Dr. Laura. Bruce Canwell on Al Capp: A Life To The Contrary.

* one thing I'd love to see in the future is more scene-specific comics blogs -- kind of like this one on the Houston arts scene by Robert Boyd, but only about comics.

* not comics: I always wondered why I remember watching some classic TV shows under a different name: Mark Evanier says it's because it was the network re-running them under a different name. Or at least that could be it. Thanks, Mark Evanier.

* Christopher Irving and Seth Kushner profile Robert Kirkman.

* here are a couple of rejected Iron Man covers by Paul Hornschemeier.

* not comics: Martin Wisse on the Anne McCaffrey dragon books as seminal fantasy prose, or at least whatever you'd call their blend of fantasy and science fiction. I think he's right, but I actually think he undersells those core trilogies, which I think are pretty great for smart kids and teens. There are a bunch of reasons, including but not limited to: McCaffrey's prose is ideally suited for younger readers, straight-forward and no-fuss; the plots are reasonably complex without being over-challenging in terms of adult themes, the Harper Hall trilogy is where I first discovered the boarding-school fantasy that the Harry Potter books utilize to even greater effect, and the good-guy/bad-guy elements are interesting in that the biggest threat is environmental rather than all-encompassing, directed evil. I was also fascinated by the fact that the two trilogies kind of wove in and out of each other, and by the concept of a civilization that declined rather than progressed. I'm very grateful to have read those books in my tweens.

* missed it: advice to a young cartoonist.

* Josh Bayer writes on getting in Derf's contribution to Suspect Device #3.

* I'm not sure where I got this link using the newly-announced all-female X-Men lineup to springboard into a fashion illustration featuring the various characters and their styles, but it was enjoyable, so here.

* finally, here's a column devoted to gimmick covers and the like, and the comics that boasted them. That seems as good a way as any to get into the comic books of the 1990s.
 
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