Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Henry Chamberlain on Fight Club 2 #1. Sean Gaffney on No Game, No Life Vol. 1. Alex Hoffman on Let's Dance A Waltz.

* the site Broken Frontier is in the midst of a fundraiser for an anthology and some of those involved have asked me via separate outreaches for coverage. I'm always a bit confused by fancy anthology, big-money fundraisers, and the idea that a publisher doesn't bring capital to the table. I'm also told forcefully I'm full of shit on those topics: that it shouldn't matter where the money comes from and it's presumptuous to insert myself into the decision-making process of artists who participate. I like the Broken Frontier site and will take some time later today to check out their project, which features several comics-makers I enjoy and is paying them for their work.

* if I were a comics-maker looking for a home for my all-ages work, the numbers they move into the market indicate that Papercutz would be right up there with Scholastic and First Second in terms of desirable publishing partners. Congratulations to the authors.

* not comics: the writer/director James Gunn wrote a longish facebook post about the criticism focused at writer/director Joss Whedon for his new Avengers film. It's worth reading if you're super into these kinds of cultural moments. Again, what I find fascinating is the idea that a subset of fans are certain they know the correct way to use Marvel's property, a level of involvement with licensed properties that's astonishing for how it overreaches functional wisdom about how something like that works. People are writing about fictional characters as if someone writing them a certain way is the same thing as a demeaning act done a real person -- not just as a bad thing in and of itself in terms of cultural messaging. The coarse-dialogue aspect of this is a far distant second item of interest, at least for me. As far as the criticisms themselves go, I would imagine they would be less of an issue if there were a range of strong, prominent female characters in such films on a regular basis, and I suspect some of the energy here is that general criticism brought to bear in this specific circumstance. Whedon clears some accusatory elements floating around the Internet here.

* in the course of some post-dated linking I find a short piece from David Collier on growing up in Toronto, if you feel like scrolling down a bit.

* Tom Gammill noticed several Nancy strips were used as a Mad Men prop.

* finally, Mike Mignola draws the original Avengers and their first bad guy.
 
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