Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Independent profiles mobile entertainment options including manga. I always grit my teeth when people make the point that their delivery system/genre/art form is cool and/or profitable by asserting that Shakespeare was some kind of medium-unspecific gadfly, and there's nothing in here that doesn't seem to me should surprise anyone, but it's a solid piece for sure and I'm happy for whichever cartoonists get to reach audiences this way.

* here's a list of 25 greatest superhero romances. No love for Nexus/Sundra Peale, Zot!/Jenny Weaver or the game-changing Midnighter/Apollo. I also always liked Shang Chi and Leiko Wu as a couple, because they seemed deeply screwed up.

* the great Carlton Hargro picks Wolverine's greatest hits.

* Leigh Walton suggests that webcomics is part of a unique and growing approach to artistic expression generally.

* here's a way to look at all of the King Features Earth Day cartoons from yesterday.

* not comics: Gil Roth points in the direction of this list of forgotten or otherwise neglected Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, which I thought interesting enough I wanted to bring it to your attention, too. The only two I've read are probably the poorest choices on the list, concept-wise: the Drury and the Millhauser. No one's buying Martin Dressler because there are better Millhauser books, and I bet most of those copies were purchased at some point by somebody out there. And just because no one reads Advise and Consent anymore doesn't mean it didn't have millions of readers in multiple editions for about three decades. There's probably two copies in their respective bookshelves within a half mile of where you're sitting right now, between the Thurber and the Edwin O'Connor.

* not comics: this is adorable.

* not comics: so is this.

* finally, happy birthday, ninja turtles. I'm tempted to write an article at some point, but in a sense I think their legacy is clear: the worldwide licensing bonanza that began with principles of ownership and control fostered by the self-publishing movement, the Vinko Bogataj-style lesson of Tundra and the Xeric Foundation.
 
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