Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Philip Nel presents his opening to his forthcoming Crockett Johnson biography, unpacking the writing and editorial process a bit.

* politics is stupid. I'd feel bad for Neil Gaiman if he were getting that particular criticism of his reading fee if he were doing it to squeeze money out of the libraries and spending what he got on hookers and crystal meth because it's hardly his fault if someone wants to pay his fee. That Gaiman sets his fee where he does in order to price himself out of most speaking engagements and then donated the money to charity makes me want to move to Minnesota, run for the statehouse and then sneak out of the first full legislative session to poop in that guy's office.

* who on earth wouldn't want a mural for their shop created by Eleanor Davis and David Mack?

* it's on Facebook, so I apologize to anyone this frustrates, but here's a sketch of Usagi Yojimbo by Gahan Wilson.

* I always enjoy Bully's scan-driven posts, mostly because it boggles the mind that he would know where to find all of the material, single panels across a thousand funnybooks. The latest is a group of detail-light shortcut panels.

* Joe Keatinge talks about achieving one of his dreams.

* one of my favorite comics commentators out there is Graeme McMillan, and I sort of see the general point of what he's getting at here, but it seems silly to me to even suggest that when organizations ignore work that's routinely covered in major media sources and focus on some minor superhero work that's maybe covered on like 15 web sites that it's somehow the fault of the PR people that this happens as opposed to the shortsightedness and lack of effort on the part of the people at the organizations looking to honor work for X, Y, Z reason.

* today is National Cartoonists Day. Do we still celebrated National Cartoonists Day? Did we ever really celebrate it?

* here's a fascinating article on Chester Brown's use of text notes. I imagine that after the issues Brown introduces the focus of most of the conversation about Paying For It will be those notes. I hope it doesn't get mired into a legitimacy argument, although I'm afraid it will.

* the day Hayley Campbell almost killed Kurt Busiek.

* here's something I've never seen: James Owen drawing Uncle Scrooge.

* the world's least cost-efficient super-villain returns!

* not comics: I forgot all about this, but of course there were a bunch of special commemorative issues of newspapers built around the death of Osama Bin Laden. That's how a lot of papers make money now. That particular phenomenon is going to have a very odd effect on the news in the short term. In the long term, I'm not sure any of it matters.

* that fun-sounding "Defective Comics" panel from the last HeroesCon that I couldn't attend because of interviewing Richard Thompson is now on-line. Craig Fischer explains.

* this is quite the meaty review/interview column from Nick Gazin.

* finally, yesterday was apparently Star Wars something-or-other, I guess because of the horrible lack of all things Star Wars the other 364 days a year. I didn't run across a whole lot of stuff, but this post at DC Women Kicking Ass has a couple of nice Princess Leia drawings by big-name mainstream comic book illustrators.
 
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