Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer Brad Mackay provides some personal context for his recent review of Paying For It.

* Matt Seneca breaks down some of the art in Prince Valiant and how Hal Foster achieves certain effects. It's great to see today's generation of comics critics re-appraise Foster's masterwork after a period in which folks looked on Prince Valiant with suspicion due to how much an earlier generation lauded it.

* people keep sending me this: Hot Chicks In Batman Shirts

* the cartoonist Dan Zettwoch teases the forthcoming anthology Root Rot with a page of his work from the publication.

* Alex Boney uses a Darwyn Cooke short story to facilitate some thinking on the death of Osama Bin Laden. Speaking of which, Kevin Melrose bravely asks the least-important question. Still, I know I wondered. Just to get all of this material in the same place: Richard Thompson shows off a now-obsolete cartoon.

* Mike Baehr expresses mixed feelings about being able to look at material Charles Schulz didn't attend for public viewing.

* Fred Hembeck's Women Of The DCU.

* so I guess Marvel is relaunching its Ultimate Universe yet again. That would be cool if that line's basic organizing principle were to become quicker and quicker total line relaunches.

* Erica Friedman explores the concept of the "Girl Prince" in an installment of her column at Hooded Utilitarian.

* finally, the writer and critic David Brothers engages a shortcoming common to a lot of writers about comics, myself included: we don't know enough about how art works.
 
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