Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the great R. Fiore weighs in on the Danish Cartoons Controversy. Noah Berlatsky thinks everything Fiore wrote was bullshit, and sent me the link where he says so.

* here's a report from the Best of '00s panel at the recent MoCCA Festival, including the lists provided by the panel participants. Very few choices made me roll my eyes.

* not comics: did you know that the animator Ralph Bakshi was a prolific, self-taught painter? Check out his latest catalog of works.

* "I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is get beat up at school."

* I remember Deathstroke when Deathstroke was cool, or at least when he had enough going on that he would be the most likely candidate for an appearance in a Grant Morrison comic. Esther Inglis-Arkell does not remember that cool Deathstroke, but another one entirely.

* what makes you say, "Okay, that's enough"?

* not comics: I don't really understand this article that's out there right now under various bylines. It says that Marvel is going to aim a lot of their properties at the slightly less than blockbuster budget category, say $20-40 million. I don't follow Hollywood that closely, but wasn't this sort of move obvious? First, on no planet was there ever going to be a $150 million Ka-Zar movie. Second, when Marvel went to Disney and started bringing properties back into the fold, it was pretty obvious that this would mean fewer comic book blockbuster movies rather than more of them. Wasn't it?

* finally, the writer Matt Maxwell pens a piece on the Stumptown Comics Fest for Heidi MacDonald's The Beat. He repeats something I've heard in a lot of the things I've been sliding into the "Collective Memory" on the show -- Portland comics audiences come armed with money for reading materials.
 
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