Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Todd Klein on Flash #12.

* not comics: here's an article on what it's like to be underemployed in an industry that's contracting at your position. I think the next contractions in comics have a chance to be apocalyptic -- not just reducing positions but overhauling the entire structure of companies. I hope I'm wrong. It's tough to make art for the years at a time it takes to be good at art of any kind when the economics won't sustain people. It becomes a tragedy when the money was there but due to ingrained exploitation doesn't make it to creators. I have very little to offer any business in comics that's not the gigs I have now: last time I went pitching gigs and applying I did not receive a single response for over 150 mailings over a three-year period, let alone an actual job. This work is precious, and may not always be here.

* Conan Tobias profiles Katherine Collins.

* finally, here's a The Oatmeal comic on the backfire effect. I honestly didn't understand a lot of this one, but the idea that you put these long comics with agreeable messages up for free seems unbeatable in a way I'm not sure why more people don't do it.
 
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