Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Martin Wisse remembers Paul Gillon.

* the writer and critic Rob Clough profiles the cartoonist Susie Cagle through her latest batch of mini-comics.

* once you see this, you will never unsee it.

* the cartoonist Dustin Harbin expands on his thoughts about the various comics industry awards out there. I think it suffers a bit from Harbin trying to be a bit too even-handed, or at least more even-handed than I suspect he feels, but certainly there's a lot in there over which one can mull. As a bonus, Harbin gives us a page of sketches featuring Chester Brown and Seth.

* here's a reminder that Simon Gane is selling original art and other items now. I can imagine few things nicer.

* it's good to see that Jack Kirby's contentious 1989 interview with Gary Groth over who deserves credit for the primetime Marvel period of the 1960s can still ruffle feathers. One fallacy in which I think fans engage when they try to adjudicate who's telling the truth is to criticize Kirby for complaining as if everyone out there knows they both contributed to the success of those books and by pressing Kirby wants more than he's due. I think any rational look at who's benefited more from their contributions to that period sees Lee coming out way, way ahead, and I don't think anyone should blame Kirby for staking his claim, or pick at a statement or two from someone who wasn't really a lucid talker in order to discredit the general issues involved. To put it another way, the fact that Kirby may have overstated a few things doesn't come close to damaging the value his roaring into that debate in interviews like that one and the one with Eisner in '83 had in setting the record much, much straighter over the immensely complicated issue of those comics' creation.

* that Tony Millionaire Batman comic is out there somewhere waiting for you to look at it, or at least that's what Tony Millionaire says. Speaking of Millionaire, he'd like information on a strip called Metallic Meatloaf, if anyone has any.

* this superhero-related headline cracked me up. From the same site, I enjoyed this post of Grant Morrison commenting on a Batman And Robin from late in his run on that title.

* finally, I have to imagine that there weren't a lot of Silver Age superhero covers featuring the caught-in-the-moment murder of a teenage girl. It's sort of chilling to have that pointed out to me.
 
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