Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* good on Nick Anderson for doing a cartoon on the ridiculous sight of people castigating a cartoonist for doing his job.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco on My Boyfriend Is A Monster Vols. 7-8. Rob Clough on a bunch of different comics. Todd Klein on Swamp Thing #19. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Black Bat.

* not comics: some tweets are crueler than others.

* here's a list of youth-friendly comics published in the calendar year 2012. I remember liking the Kikuo Johnson, the Faith Erin Hicks and the Chris Schweizer quite a bit; I'm sure there are others I liked a lot I'm now forgetting.

* appraising Valiant.

* industry veteran KC Carlson remembers 1993. It's not exactly the 1993 I remember, because I was not reading a lot of these same comics. In fact, I remember being almost violently repelled by the mainstream and genre-focused independent comics of that era. I had this very sweet store owner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that would always save me the high end stuff so I'd buy it, too, but it was very hard to read.

* Brigid Alverson talks to Darryl Cunningham.

* Chris Mautner would like to see Grip collected.

* finally, some professionals continue to fume against Dragon*Con, even as one-time driving force and multiple-time accused pedophile Ed Kramer mounts another round of legal defense with money that he makes from that show's success. I had actually wondered how long until that show's reputation as a kind of "sexy con" would start to bleed over into this story. It seems really straight-forward to me that Kramer using convention money to avoid going to trial is a bad situation. I guess that it's tough on the people that enjoy that show, and the other people that profit without the legal possibility of their being horrible monsters, but sometimes situations are tough. I'm not sure why there's anger at the lawyers, though.
 
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