Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Todd Klein on Jacked #5. Katie Skelly on Gorgeous.

* I greatly enjoyed Rebecca Wanzo's direct inquiry into the potential cultural impact of Marvel/Disney folding the Black Panther character created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee into their universe-spanning series of films. I wonder if the way Ta-Nehisi Coates writing the Black Panther comic book is being processed is the first movies-to-comics discussion of superhero comics' cultural value.

* I thought I mentioned this, but I can't find it, so here it is for the first or second time: Matt Badham interviews Tom Bondavand about his March cancer diagnosis.

* educator and industry veteran Stephen Bissette on the virtues of media that you can physically own and on which you can place your hands in a tactile sense. I remain interested in the pair of notions that seem, at times, to be at some odds: that as a consumer issue ownership is an advocacy issue but in a creators rights sense it might not be.

* Chris Stein on comics-related educational efforts in Nigeria.

* for weeks now I've been screwing up on placing the formal announcement of Top Shelf's Fun Family into its proper publishing news slot, so let me just skip that obsessive sorting act and mention it here. I'm not sure that for everyone Top Shelf has a line identity outside of March -- not a bad line identity to have! -- so every one of their releases for the next couple of years will likely at least subconsciously processed in terms of the publisher as well as on its own.

* finally, I love the directness of the emotional appeal here.
 
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