Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* if you can only read one comics-related piece today, read whatever you want -- holy crap, I'd have to be an asshole to tell you what to do with an entire day's worth of reading. I hope at some point you'll catch up with Nicole Rudick's talk with Victor Moscoso over at Paris Review. I thought it was a blast. Also, more comics fans should follow her on Twitter; everything she writes about comics is really good.
* it's not a closely-related enough story for a full Danish Cartoon or Charlie Hebdo update, but some of the more strident and seemingly intractable impasses of the war between cultures in Europe seem to have gained some heat and evinced greater frustration for the fact of the Hebdo murders. I don't think pressure of this kind was a primary aim, but it seems to have been a primary result. Everything feels strained and impossible now.
* totally certain I've posted that Reich pages are for sale; totally not worried about posting it again. Not a lot of comic book series left like that one.
* here's a pretty old-school deconstruction of the comics sales of the 1940s as they were supposedly upended by comics censorship movements in the 1950s. I trust the hatred that I encountered decades later from the cartoonists of that era to ever dismiss the dramatic effect the censors had on the ability of comics to tell certain kinds of stories. At the same time, logic suggests that there was likely a kaleidoscope of cultural forces at work to move the industry from one period of sales and mainstream expression to another.
* Sean Gaffney on 
