Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* so the rapture happened over the weekend.

* Steven Heller on Milt Gross' New York. Todd Klein on Detective Comics #39. Henry Chamberlain on Sexcastle and The Witcher: Fox Children #1.

* is this a new front page for the Maakies site? I think it might be, but I'm always distrustful because if I heard it from Tony Millionaire, he's probably just messing with me.

* the writer and critic Noah Berlatsky makes a good point here that by restricting a greatest-ever list to female comics creators, your final list is likely less ghettoized because of the longstanding love affair between boys and superhero comics. I think those lists are always fun exercises, useful for people reading the result to find new creators or think about old ones in new ways, useful for critics to organize their thinking a bit or to reach for examples beyond their enthusiasms. They are temporal and fleeting and limited, though, my own in particular.

* go here for a photo that's Margaret Atwood reading a copy of Sex Criminals. Or it could be something else, I guess. It's funny, you start editing in comics with the fear that some of what you're being told about the comics is wrong and you're just not developed enough in that area to realize it. When you get older, it's everything else in the world that becomes the problem.

* if you're going to read one today, read Zainab Akhtar on Fabien Vehlmann. I was reminded of that piece by this one, and I want to re-read it before I jump back into MacDonald's.

* I have a hard time understanding the costume impulse at cons. I'm told it's partly because I overthink it. I love costumes, I think they're awesome; I also think the last thing I'd want to do in a costume is walk around a giant garage sale. For whatever reason, I really liked this photo.

* finally: I love you, Movie Mogul Namor.
 
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