Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jillian Tamaki talks to Eleanor Davis.

* not comics: there are not a whole lot of posts more regularly amazing than Drew Friedman's when he does series of playbills.

* a lot of the people I know in comics like the writer Mark Millar and most, I think, respect his climb to mega-success. He's been perfectly pleasant to me over the years, and I can extol the virtues I find in his writing to anyone that will listen. That said, when I covered mainstream comics closely I recall he had what looked like a compulsive urge to misstate things in the press to make himself look better. That sounds like what's going on here. It's just not true, and Millar's focused enough on advancing his status that he would know the facts. The thing is these lies almost always land within the context of corporate mainstream comics, which is a world festooned with lies and fueled by exploitation, and thus this kind of thing can be seen almost as a series of heroic actions, painting graffiti on Mt. Doom. I think Millar was always too talented and is now too successful to have to do this, and I wish the mainstream publications would do some basic fact-checking on the specific claims from which entire articles are built.

* finally: haven't looked in on Boulet for a while.
 
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