Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Alex Robinson is serializing some of his fun fantasy work on-line.

* Jeffrey Brown is profiled by Graphic NYC, which means a bunch of photos like the one from the image at right is taken.

* speaking of comics on-line, this one with an inspiring message for young artists/cartoonists is making the rounds, or at least I assume so from the number of people that e-mailed in a link.

* there's a nice feature up at the Cagle site where Daryl Cagle looks at Zapiro's progression of images used to comment on the Osama Bin Laden killing. Zapiro's a great choice because he's a prominent world cartoonist and capable of a real savagery with the pen, but at the same time he's not exactly dealing with that specific political subject matter every day.

* here's something of a make-up from the Doug Wright Awards: the Jeet Heer appreciation of Spotting Deer that wasn't read at the ceremony.

* speaking of things from TCAF weekend, my initial report has been tightened up, shorn of many embarrassing typos, and linked-up to a much greater extent.

* R. Fiore writes on Paying For It, one of the reviews of that book I've been waiting to read.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco pulls together a bunch of horrifying images and story moments from a DC mega-event/limited-series thing called "Brightest Day."

* this profile of Emily Carroll showed up in my bookmarks folder this morning, which means I probably got it e-mailed to me, or perhaps at Robot 6 or through Sean Collins. All apologies.

* this TCAF report from Secret Acres is a lot of fun, but I want to pull it out of the Collective Memory and mention it here because it confirms a hunch I had about traffic flow at such an event. My memory is that I stopped by every table on both Saturday and Sunday; the reality is I never saw the Secret Acres booth. I saw those guys on the way over, and I think talked to both separately at some point during the show, but their table? Not so much. So there are dead spots or at least hard-to-lock-onto spots in every table set-up imaginable, even one at a mighty show like TCAF.

* I've had no idea how one gets sketches at cons for so long that I actually asked someone two years ago in San Diego how it was done because it confused me to death. The writer and critic Don MacPherson is a sketch collector, and talks about his collection a bit here.

* J. Chris Campbell has a very sweet FCBD report up here.

* this is perhaps the most adorable story ever with a crotch-hugging at its center.

* finally, fans are digging into this teaser for a forthcoming DC comics mega-event series or some variation thereof. I've said this in the past, but I think 12-year-old me would have liked the idea of staring at teaser images, but would have become frustrated in rather short form by how poorly many of them pay off.
 
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