Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer and critic Kate Dacey walks us through the new Kodansha web site.

* Danny Fingeroth wrote in very nicely asking me to provide some link-service to MoCCA's educational programs. I don't really have a way to draw attention to them within the blog in a regular fashion -- those seem to be more a service being offered than an event being held, although admittedly paid conventions muddy those waters. If there were a registration day or something and it was given its own URL I'd be happy to list it on the appropriate parts of the site. I don't want to be a jerk, though, so until then I hope this mention will suffice. I can't vouch for any of the individual programs having never taken such a class let alone these classes, but all of those teachers strike me as smart guys.

* a side trip into Lambiek's comics biographies informs me that the late, highly-regarded mainstream comic book artist Michael Turner would have turned 40 today. I know that he was very well-liked by a lot of people in his part of the world of comics, and I imagine he remains very much missed. My goodness, he was young.

* the cartoonist Rob Kirby has been unpacking his personal history in lengthy posts like this one.

* surprise penises!

* via Robot 6 comes a lengthy interview with Roger Langridge where among a bunch of things discussed he shakes his head at the R-rate superhero comic book and how that damages the powerful licensing work done for decades. I'm not sure I all the way agree with this -- I think the kids' versions of the DC superheroes are the real ones in a lot of ways that matter, and I think Langridge's own work with superheroes didn't fare poorly because of a preference for dirty, mean superheroes but because of some structural issues -- but Langridge is a smart guy with direct experience working on that kind of book and should always be taken seriously.

* Tim Hodler updates TCJ readers as to the number of issues of the classic print magazine now archives -- those archives will eventually move behind a subscriber-only wall, so devour them now.

* not comics: here's a piece on the stage adaptation of Skyscrapers Of The Midwest.

* a bunch of you were nice enough to e-mail me this slideshow of Ben Katchor talking technique over at The Atlantic. I apologize to whomever had it first where everyone saw it. It's not exactly humongous, but it's Ben Katchor.

* finally, this article suggests that the Marvel superhero has a difficult time being alienated when there's an active and vital superhero sub-culture depicted within the Marvel Universe.
 
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