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May 20, 2013


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's Anne Ishii with an all-time anecdote about traveling with Gengoroh Tagame.

image* Rob Kirby on Heads Or Tails. Brian Gardes on Time Samplers. Michael Buntag on Julio's Day. Richard Bruton on Largo Winch Vol. 12, Reads #3 and The Whale House Vol. 2. Kelly Thompson on Gambit #12 and The Dream Merchant #1. Michael Aushenker on The Property.

* not comics: dating advice from Kelly Sue DeConnick.

* if I had a refrigerator where I put comics up because I recognized an element of it from my own life, this comic might go up. Also, one of those S. Clay Wilson ones.

* Shawn Starr talks to Ryan Sands. Hannah Means-Shannon talks to W. Maxwell Prince. Karl Keily talks to Max Brooks. Kiel Phegley talks to Axel Alonso. JK Parkin talks to Mike Norton. Chris Arrant talks to Sean Murphy. Jake Tapper talks to Garry Trudeau. Yolanda Johnson Bryant talks to Kerry G. Johnson.

* a salute to Mike Mignola via convention badge.

* here's a profile of comics made about artists.

* I assume they mean the financial success of Netflix and not the widely-criticized, low-grade contempt side of Neflix.

* Sean Kleefeld writes about symbol re-appropriation and applies it to iconic, big-company superhero characters.

* I have this theory that comics t-shirts follow the trend for elaborate costumes at shows in a double helix pattern way.

* finally, Brian Hibbs makes an addition to last week's "Tilting" column on mini-series sales in DM shops by noting the worst-case scenario.
 
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