April 8, 2008
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* ICv2
announces panelists for its Graphic Novel Conference next week. I really want to go, but I can't find out anything about press access. Can anyone out there
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* the strangest thing you'll see today is likely to be
this collection of pages from a cross-gender Archie story, courtesy of
Comics Worth Reading.
* the cartoonist Paul Pope
draws a scene from that great Lee-Kirby issue of
Fantastic Four where The Thing becomes a pirate.
*
this profile of Jeff Kinney talks about the central role that the NYCC played in launching his thus-far super-successful career.
*
E&P looks back at Charlton Heston's
visit to the annual convention held by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
* Michael Gonzales was
a teenage comic book writer.
* the artist and magazine editor Mike Manley
writes a blistering essay on how the people complaining about a new cartoon for kids are "bitter bee babymen" who can't let go of these characters even in a situation that's not aimed at their proclivities. Instead of backing off, he re-emphasizes this point in broader and stronger strokes with
a mini-essay dedicated to the subject, complete with this piece of brutal, funny art.
* the writer J. Caleb Mozzocco notices how despite all their editorial summits and editor-driven crossovers,
there are still inexplicable goofs in the wider stories that Marvel sometimes chooses to tell. Although I doubt anyone cares much these days, this kind of thing would have driven me insane at 10 years old.
* the writer Douglas Wolk vs. the writer David Hajdu
at The New Republic on issues swirling around Hajdu's
The Ten-Cent Plague.
* finally,
I forgot my old pal Greg Stump's birthday yesterday. If I can find a birthdate, I'll put up a formal announcement and backdate it. Greg
is a very funny cartoonist far too few people know.
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