Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Andy Rooney gently rants about the funny pages. It's not difficult to imagine him saying that the funny pages aren't all that funny, and now you don't have to imagine it. This is his second comics-related rant this year after the one about Bill Mauldin. Rooney is also, of course, the average age for a devoted comics fan in North America.

* one-time funnybook industry veteran and long-time writer about comics Robert Boyd writes well about two Houston mini-comics artists: Kelly Deanne Robertson and Ted Closson.

* here's something cute: a Ramones design-influenced t-shirt for the two-shop chain Comix Connection has itself been bootlegged. I'm all for bootlegging comics shop t-shirts and the day I win the lottery will wear nothing but, although I suppose that it's either the Ramones element that attracted the copiers or they outright think it's a band.

* not comics: Chester Brown made a nice poster.

* finally, I'm just now catching up with some of the personal Dick Giordano tributes, like this one from James Owen that ably captures how a lot of people our age regarded him: as artist and businessman in equal measure. I was really struck by the Journal interview Gary Groth did with Giordano about labeling, and how relatively forthright the industry veteran was in trying to answer the specific questions placed in front of him. You don't see a whole lot of that anymore.
 
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