Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* whoa, check out the festival poster that Copenhagen got from Chris Ware that they'll be selling on site. Actually, I'm just putting this up in the hope that someone .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

* Brandon Soderberg indicts some "insanely racist shit" he discovered in Spider-Man: Fever #1. Trouble With Comics has testimony here. Robot 6 has commentary here.

* I'm not sure what the hell is going on with this comic -- I'm guessing it's an actual quote -- but it made me laugh.

* Newsarama interviews the Luna Brothers on the conclusion of their 24th and final issue of their Image series The Sword. They're right: that was an effective twist on the last page of issue #23. Although I certainly wasn't looking, I still didn't see it coming.

* here's a better than usual mainstream media article about the economics of webcomics.

* nice poster for Smiley Bone. This is like when you know a show is a hit because the supporting characters start to show up for the last segment on Letterman.

* not comics: it's amazing that someone can write something this trite and actually think they're getting at something that hasn't already been talked to death. The more interesting question is whether or not we're headed in that direction at some point. I know a lot of people who have scrambled off the grid, or who have really wrestled their connectiveness to the ground. I also know people who seem to spend 11 hours a day between Facebook and Twitter.

* about 18 people sent me this link. Eighteen smart people.

* finally, Devlin Thompson sends along a link to this encouraging letter from Al Capp to a young man who, like Capp, lost a leg.
 
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