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April 18, 2013


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there's a really good post here at The Beat about 20th Century kids comics using Gilbert Hernandez's slideshow as a springboard.

image* James Baker writes about the satirizing of George Augustus Frederick.

* Michael Cavna eases into a fun piece on the Eisners judging process.

* Dominic Umile on The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward.

* the writer Ron Marz on the specific satisfactions of DIY projects.

* the comics-maker Dan Jurgens penned a short piece for CBR on the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster character Superman, now 75 years old in published form. Tom Bondurant wrote this blog post on the Lois Lane character, also now 75 years old in published form. Graeme McMillan re-runs that great Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely page from the All Star Superman series.

* Mark Kardwell tosses a spotlight on UK comics publishing in advance of this weekend's Comica events.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco on You're All Just Jealous Of My Backpack.

* finally: feel better, Bob! For all the people disagree on everything in comics, more people I know agree that Bob Levin's Most Outrageous is the best book about comics and cartoonists, ever. He's a great guy, too.
 
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