Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* inspired by his Eisner nomination for best lettering, Brian Fies decides to write a bit about his approach to that element of the comics craft.
* the retailer Mike Sterling offers up monthly run-down of bizarre crap that has a place in a comics Direct Market that sometimes doesn't have a place at all for talented cartoonoists.
* not comics: David Brothers catches something that I had been looking for but hadn't yet seen: fan reaction to Idris Elba playing a Norse God in the forthcoming Thor movie that framed the casting as political correctness gone wrong. I tend to enjoy the results of color-blind casting and I think superhero films could use more of it in general, but clearly a lot of modern blockbuster film fans don't share my opinion.
* not comics: Charlie Stross writes about the misconceptions that people have of writing as a job. I don't agree with all of it -- I don't like to reverse-glamorize writing professionally as some sort of cursed-by-the-gods task -- and I've never been beset by tons of people making these sitcom-style assumptions (not since my early 20s, anyway), but the gist of it works for me. Much of it is applicable to cartoonists, particularly the part where everyone assumes you're rich if you have certain gigs.
* congratulations to Darryl Cunningham 
