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May 24, 2010


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* The Daily Cross Hatch has up a nice, short interview with Jonathan Rosenberg, following up on the Goats cartoonist's announcement he'd be re-thinking his comics career.

image* Frank Santoro remembers having Bill Watterson around on Sundays.

* we used to have a policy at The Comics Journal in the mid-1990s to be really careful with interviews, because it was a way-too-easy way to do things that should be hard. I'm reminded of that policy these days the more I read these roundtables that seem to be popping up everywhere. The positive is that if I distrust them, they're probably super-popular. And that I'll probably soon be doing my own.

* Kiel Phegley on the biggest revelation in Hope Larson's female readership survey.

* not comics: I watched some of the original three Star Wars movies over the weekend while cooking and cleaning house. I like that Princess Leia and Darth Vader are the only characters to kill people with their bare hands in those movies, although maybe I'm forgetting someone. Watching an enraged, 85-pound Leia choke out a 900-pound muppet makes me think that if Luke failed and the dead Jedis had turned their attention to the Princess as a last hope she would have flipped to the Dark Side in like 85 seconds.

* like Del Close giving notes to the latest improv class graduates at Second City, Kurt Busiek talks Wednesday Comics.

* finally, does any category of comics fundraiser work more effectively than the webcomics cartoonist needing new equipment?
 
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