Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the CBLDF talks about potential Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and the First Amendment.

* Bhob Stewart provides three drawings he made for an early Castle Of Frankenstein, and talks about working on that seminal publication.

* I love this Mike Mignola Hellboy sketch.

* while we're enjoying -- or being enraged by -- the release of Dan Clowes' Wilson, it looks like Germany is getting a big dose of Death Ray.

* Evan Dorkin's long, disjointed ramble of a convention report on the just-passed TCAF is worth pulling out into its own mention here. Dorkin has been around for a much longer time than most people in comics his age, and it's interesting to watch him process the specific pleasures and frustrations one experiences with comics shows at a certain age and point in your professional life. Plus, as you might expect, it's frantic and funny. With perhaps a bit of a challenge from Dustin Harbin's ongoing opus -- part two here, and you can scramble around for the other parts -- it's my favorite piece on that show. Harbin's cartoons are pretty darn cute, though. D&Q's was pretty good, too. Oh, I give up.

* Steve Perry (the writer, not the singer) talks about how he was helped by The Hero Initiative.

* here are a couple of links submitted by Devlin Thompson: the mystery of a missing Superman painting, the letter that Bill Watterson sent out to newspaper editors when he decided to end Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks, Devlin.

* finally, I miss reading piles of single-issue comic books every week, because you get a very Ozymandias' wall of television sets view of the comics world that way. It's probably the best way to take the temperature of the big companies.
 
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