Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* super-delighted to see this photo of that great man of comics, Kim Thompson.

* Scott Cederlund on MIND MGMT Vol. 1. Andy Oliver on Welcome To Your Awesome Robot.

* I think I may be among the last people to drive attention to this photo array from the Hateball tour of 20 years ago, but that's a really, really fun photo set.

* James Bacon talks to Rian Hughes. Some nice person from the DWAs interviewed Michael DeForge, Eric Kostiuk Williams, Patrick Kyle, Michael Comeau, Nina Bunjevac, Jesse Jacobs and Tin Can Forest. Nicole Rudick talks to James Romberger and Marguerite Cook. James Romberger talks to Michael DeForge. Daniel Glendening talks to Mike Richardson and Joe Casey. Will Scott talks to Krystel.

* not comics: I like Joe Quesada's t-shirt here. I'm also fond of Dan Parent's color choices here. That's right, I'm going to do links like this all the time now.

* Chris Mautner takes the opportunity provided by the publication of Bazooka Joe And His Gang to write a bit about nostalgia as a driving force for our interactions with art, particularly comics art. I would imagine that there are some potential problems when nostalgia sort of takes over publishing programs, or aspects of them, to the detriment of art being made. I do wonder in the future what cartoonists and comics-makers from my childhood that will hold any interest at all for those that didn't read them when they were 12 years old. I think it's already happening a bit in that it's much easier than it used to be to buy comic books that aren't tied into a specific, ongoing property no matter who does them. I would also imagine that the way a lot of younger artists and art fans seem filter everything as available to them because they anchor that stuff to the present via an interest in themselves provides a different way for the past to be accessed.

* "I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is get shit on by birds."

* finally, Avengers Assemble is very much not canceled.
 
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