Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Dave Lartigue declares February 1966 the greatest month of the Silver Age. Looking at the parade of dementia he assembles in the linked-to blog posting, it's hard to argue with him. I was very fond of the Weird Legionnaire when I was a kid.

* Ken Parille offers up a variety of strategies with which to negotiate style as presented in the new Dan Clowes book, Wilson.

* not exactly Carter Scholz.

* not comics: the funny thing is, the actual, multiple endings to Sanford and Son in our world isn't too much weirder than the stuff Andrew Farago presents in this blog posting.

* not comics: congratulations to Matt, Kelly Sue and Henry Leo on the new edition to their family. That photo is pretty amazingly adorable.

* Dan Nadel reports in from the great Swiss comics festival Fumetto, where every comics fan in the world that's not just a capes and cowls fan would like to be this week, even if they've never heard of it.

* the writer Kurt Busiek opens up a box of comics and marvels at how much good stuff there is inside. I don't like 70 percent of these books, but I believe in his general point: there's just an avalanche of quality material out there right now for all but the most rigidly-focused readers.

* did I really use "marvels" as a verb to describe something Kurt Busiek did? Sorry, Kurt.

* "Grandpa, what was life like back in 2010?" "It was stranger than you can imagine, Billy."

* the future of comics, apparently.

* David Brothers argues Death To Canon. I always hated that fat jerk, so that's fine with me. Marc-Oliver Frisch comments on Brothers' essay and says he'd miss that aspect of comics if it went away.

* Eric Reynolds writes a letter of condolence to the Lambiek family on the passing of their patriarch, Kees Kousemaker.

* comics is so great right now that big ol' books like this one just sneak up on you.

* Rick Veitch predicts the future. Actually, if you take every fifth letter it spells out "Barack Obama Is President." Okay, no it doesn't.

* finally, CR pal Gil Roth occasionally writes long essays about days spent rambling around city or country landscapes. In his latest, a day in New York City, he stumbles across Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro doing a comics presentation and finds out Forbidden Planet doesn't carry Hate Annual.
 
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