Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Lisa Hanawalt was named to a 30 under 30 list by Print.

* Erica Friedman on No Straight Lines.

* that's a nice picture of Jim Borgman from 20-plus years ago, learning he won the Pulitzer.

* I didn't link to the 24 Hours Of Women Cartoonists posting series when it was initially being unfurled over at The Beat, because I suck, but you can catch up with it here.

* I greatly enjoy SuperMutant Magic Academy and look forward to seeing these posters at MoCCA.

* Patrick Ford sent along a link to this early-March interview at Discaholic with Robert Crumb, which would be worth it just for the photo up top.

* I have to say, I sort of still don't understand how a publisher that seeks crowd-funding on anything other than the most bizarre project in the entire world stays a publisher, or at least a viable publisher that anyone might treat seriously. I can understand how there might be exceptions to this notion, but it seems to me that if you're not bringing capital to the table, your ability to do all the other things a publisher does has to be pretty first-rate in order to justify your participation on any level. Then again, it could be that treating publishers seriously is severely over-rated from the perspective of the publisher, and whatever it takes to get material out becomes paramount. I'm not sure.

* the shelving at the CCS Library is super-attractive.

* Zack Smith talks to Darryl Cunningham. Amid Amidi talks to Walt Peregoy. Paul Povse talks to Tom Englehardt back in 2010.

* here's a cute-looking bracket-type thing for superhero comics runs.

* Gary Tyrrell urges initial caution in coming to any sudden conclusions that one property is a rip-off of another, particularly when those properties deal in pretty broad strokes. I think that's good advice no matter where this particular one ends up -- or has ended up, as I'm probably not the best source for close-watching on a story like this.

* finally, the CSU Long Beach Union Weekly profiles Meltdown Comics, one of the core retailers of the entire Direct Market system.
 
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