Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* here's a fun post from Bob Temuka about moving house and the forced reverie it brought on vis-a-vis all of the comics he has. We've all been there. I'm still trying to figure out just how many comics I want, if I want any at all.
* Jim Linderman writes about one of the artists that did lurid cartooning/illustration work for pulp magazines also indicted when Congress in the 1950s looked into picture-driven material for children: Carl Pfeufer.
* here's the Pantheon tumblr post about the physical object aspects of Chris Ware's forthcoming Building Stories. Sure sounds like it will be something.
* a short report from a Warren Ellis presentation at that Mark Millar-driven convention last weekend. The writer says he's bored by comics. That might be interpreted as there not being a lot of work of the kind that Mr. Ellis likes, or him just being grumpy, or him having super-high standards, but I also think there's something boring about comics that comes down to the way they're presented right now. I might be projecting there. The stuff about comics being a long way off from finding a truly workable interface with their on-line iterations intrigued me.
* Jim Linderman writes about one of the artists that did lurid cartooning/illustration work for pulp magazines also indicted when Congress in the 1950s looked into picture-driven material for children: 
