Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I hope that you will at the very least considering taking part in the D+Q/Adrian Tomine print-related fundraiser for Japan earthquake/tsunami relief, taking place tomorrow at Noon ET.

* Matt Seneca discusses Carmine Infantino. I'm all in favor of folks discussing artists like Infantino, folks who are in that weird position of being under-appreciated in terms of their specific comics milieu but maybe over-discussed in the context of all comics. That can't be a positive when it comes to sober appraisals. At any rate, it never stops being fun looking at his stuff. Great design sense, too, page or cover.

* I'm going to spend a bit of my day checking back in on this post of tributes to the great Bill Blackbeard at TCJ.com, and I encourage you to take at least one shot at them. He was a very important figure in comics' development as an art form and as an industry. If you have Facebook access, my post taking people to yesterday's obituary has some fine commentary as well.

* no one does backstory like the writer Kurt Busiek.

* I'm going to take a pass on doing a full Collective Memory for the FLUKE! show just past, for which I apologize to anyone offended. There are some fun reports coming out of the show, though. Here's one from AdHouse Books' Chris Pitzer that has a couple of choice photos of local architecture. Here's a competing and equally effusive one from the Harry to Pitzer's Tonto (that sounds filthy, actually), Dustin Harbin. It would be great if one day there were 10-12 shows similar to this one around North America.

* any article about Santo comics has to be at least pretty good, right?

* the writer and historian Mark Evanier comments on Gail Simone's advice to those that wish to break into comics.

* I haven't read this piece yet, but I always enjoy looking at those Nick Cardy Aquaman covers. It's weird that Aquaman and Hulk have these runs of super-effective, slightly simple covers that look even better today.

* this story should maybe be a lot sadder than it feels when I read it.

* the CBLDF has arranged to sell some pin-ups from Amanda Conner.

* Timothy Callahan takes the opportunity afforded by access to digital copies of 1970s and 1980s issues of The Comics Journal to suggest that maybe things were better back when people went knives out over industry and aesthetic issues, instead of not commenting at all or covering everything in a thin veneer of Team Comics.

* finally, is this the most disturbing image of the week, or is it the most disturbing image ever? I vote ever.
 
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