Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* egad, who wouldn't want this if they have any interest at all in this type of comics?

* Tim O'Shea talks to Chris Schweizer.

* Megan Purdy writes a profile of Drawn And Quarterly on the occasion of their 25th Anniversary.

* David Letterman ended his lengthy run as a late-night talk show host and reluctant celebrity last night. That's a great broadcasting career and a significant one in American comedy for its gentle, curdled, insistent chiding nature against Reagan-era cultural banality using both very modern snark and even older, even dumber show business tools: a two-front war with more battles won than anyone might have predicted. 1985 was the worst year of my life. The two things that kept me sane were Letterman's NBC show and the Chicago Bears. I worked at a newspaper readjusting type on the sports pages. I would come home an hour after everything had to be released upstairs, a little bit after midnight. I slept on the couch in my Mom's living room, because I was afraid of being seen from an outside window and my bedroom was next to the garage, easily accessible. I would watch Letterman's show every night it was on until I fell asleep. I am very grateful to have had that TV show at that time in my life, as dumb as "having" a TV show sounds. I hope he has a happy retirement, as best as he's able. Comics has a culture of constantly proving one's love to the medium, many times through whatever of its representatives with which you had close contact at a key point in your life. I think some of it is a pose, and some of it is a general longing and ache that people hang onto because they like to keep a part of their mindset in that space. Some of it is very real and very personal. An object, a work of art, a recurring experience can save your life if it comes to you with the right thing at the right time, no matter what that thing might be. Sometimes it's just the distraction. Sometimes it's something more. It's always welcome. Thank you, Mr. Letterman.

* Claire Napier on A-Force #1. Sean Rogers on Colville and Black River.

* the writer Matt Fraction appears on Seth Meyers' late-night show this evening. I'm very happy for Matt to receive an opportunity like this, to build the kind of cultural cachet that he deserves and I hope will continue to go to comics-makers. I hope he has fun. I suppose there may be a television show announcement of some sort.

* not comics: here are Ben Marra's thoughts about the Kingpin character in the Daredevil TV show.

* finally, I don't know exactly what's going on here, but that's a fun and funny bunch of drawings.
 
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