Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Caty Simon and Tina Horn discuss Mary Wept Over The Feet Of Jesus.

* here's a snippet from what I suppose is a rolling conversation about Frank Miller's art. Here's another one. I think ugly art with a lot of abstraction can be fun, but a significant number of people disagree with me and assign value to aspects of a comic book very differently than I do.

* Jason remembers Prince.

* Joe Gross suggests that the rise of the mega-profitable superhero film has led to an increasingly stuffy mainstream comics scene. I think there's probably some truth there; Marvel went through a period in the late '90s and early '00s that was a lot like their last fallow period in the late '70s, a period that drove genre-defining hits. You also had a third player during that time in terms of prestige-project creation with WildStorm. I'm not engaged enough with that material to make any firm endorsements, but it's an opinion worth considering.

* looks like qualified individuals can apply for the 10th International Manga Award here.

* I missed this sad conclusion to the sad case of Homer Marciniak's death. It's hard to feel sorry for people that meticulously plan to do something harmful, as opposed to just head down the wrong path, though.

* finally, a cartoon from George Feyer. I can relate.
 
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