Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the New York Times profiles Market Day.

* Christopher Allen takes on what I think is the very best book about comics, Bob Levin's enormously troubling and skillful Most Outrageous.

* Ben Morse writes about early '90s superheroes that in a more rational world would have been given a much greater chance to get over with audiences. I like it because Morse realizes that costume design is a big deal. He's totally nuts on that useless Thunderstrike character, though. That character isn't even Thor's "Cousin Spike." On a good day, he's Olaf.

* Bully analyzes the last few Cerebus covers.

* Russ Manning was apparently quite the contributing pro to the fanzines of the late 1960s and early 1970s; Dan Nadel unearths a profile of Jesse Marsh by Manning that focuses on Johnny Mack Brown #2.

* I thought this post about Scott Adams and the iPhone interesting because of the notion of pushing up certain jokes or topics that are too good to resist.

* neilalien always writes the best MoCCA Festival reports.

* somewhere in the vicinity of this odd-looking photo is an opportunity to download the activism panel that was done at MoCCA.

* it's Spring again, which means that somewhere out there Ted Rall is grousing about Chris Ware. Wait, here it is.

* while I'm certain that there is reason to believe that the way manga sells in bookstores has changed, I can't take seriously ICv2.com's single-sample "Naruto Index."

* finally, Comix Talk tries to have some fun at my expense over the Stumptown Trophy Awards, although I made it abundantly clear it was the table sponsor listed, not necessarily the creator in question. Oh, well. Whatever.
 
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