Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Team Cul De Sac auction is open. I hope you'll look at it and consider bidding.

* Michael Dooley interviews John Benson about his mighty Squa Tront. Paul Gravett on the great Mark Beyer.

* I'm not exactly sure how I ended up with the link, but here's a list of links to portraits of creators working for DC right now. Or creators working for DC generally. Or creators that have done work for DC. I'm not exactly sure. It's always nice to put faces to names, though.

* I haven't read this piece by Bruce Canwell on the Archie strip's use of the descriptive "butthole," but as I've been going around for weeks now saying "That's so butthole" I'm not sure I want him to ruin it for me. There are people in my circle of friends that want it ruined, that's for sure.

* here's a fun report from the NCS Awards. Unexpected source, at least for me.

* not comics: here's a lengthy piece on the promise of creators profiting from the end-around on music companies that the Internet provided; the promise apparently wasn't kept, and this person isn't happy about that. I'm sure there's a firestorm of responses and opinions on all sides of this, but I thought the essay pretty good and the question always worth asking. Who profits? I think I picked up on that from Abhay Khosla's fine Tumblr-driven blog.

* Tom Gauld speaks truth on short stories.

* aw, those are cute awards. Too bad they're being replaced by the convention-branding awards, or whatever they're specifically called.

* the Fantagraphics Tumblr-driven site has been killing it the last few days. Check out this three-in-a-row: Michael Kupperman drawing Spider-Man and Wolverine, an ad for Love & Rockets #2 back when it was being published by company division CX Comics, and Dave Cooper drawing Adventure Time for HeroesCon. I mean, come on.

* Warren Ellis' small press work is discussed at the wonderful From Under The Stairs.

* here's the not-exactly-secret-but-maybe-forgotten secret origin of Walt Simonson.

* it's always good to see Batman on a horse.

* so what do you sell a 10-year-old that liked the Avengers movie and wants a bit of the same in comics form?

* Rob Clough on various kids comics. Bob Temuka on Classic X-Men. Andrew Shuping on EmiTown Vol. 2. Greg McElhatton on Dark Horse Presents #12. Ng Suat Tong on comics adaptations of HP Lovecraft. Karen Green on Stitches. Ed Sizemore on food manga. Johanna Draper Carlson on various strip collections. Paul O'Brien on various X-Men and related comics. Greg Burgas on Templar, Arizona Vols. 1-4. Todd Klein on Flex Mentallo and Wonder Woman #8.

* finally, Dan Slott has portfolio review advice.
 
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