Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Guy Delisle's The Burma Chronicles was selected for a province-wide reading program on Prince Edward Island. That's pretty cool.

* David Brothers on Prophet #24. Rob Clough on Dungeon Quest Vol. 3. Don MacPherson on Are You My Mother? J. Caleb Mozzocco on various comic-book comics. Johanna Draper Carlson on Dance Class Vols. 1-2 and various comics for kids.

* Mike Baehr reflects on the horrible shooting tragedy in the Fantagraphics neighborhood at a cafe frequented by several members of the Seattle cartooning community.

* Dan Morrill talks to Mark Schmidt. Andrew Smith talks to Chip Kidd. Jeffrey Renaud talks to Chip Kidd. Andrew Asberry talks to Chip Kidd.

* when I heard the story about New York City potentially limiting large soda cups, I knew that a lot of editorial cartoonists would be so, so happy for such a silly and image-rich issue.

* let me put a random Before Watchmen note right here, for no particular reason. So I thought about writing a twitter joke on a Before Watchmen series that follows in excruciating detail the Comedian as he shops for the items that he takes back to the apartment before what's-his-face kicks the door in and tosses him out the window. It made me realize I had little to no memory about what the opening to Watchmen was really like. So I looked the pages: page one, page two. It made me remember reading Watchmen #1 the day it came out. (My shop was served by another shop in a sub-distribution arrangement, so it was probably a day after a lot of people read it -- you could do that before the Internet.) I remember I genuinely thought that the detectives were going to be the main characters.

* hey, I didn't say it was going to be an interesting note.

* so, Spain Rodriguez. It looks like his OGN kickstarter could use some attention.

* I don't remember where this link came from -- probably someone's Tumblr, and I apologize for forgetting -- but I like the idea of self-portraits giving cartooning advice as an idea for a series of sketches. Pretty good advice, too.

* Gary Tyrrell gives a respectful nod in the direction of Starslip.

* way better than a field trip to the slaughterhouse.

* finally, Frank Miller's high-school comics. Or some joke about the same. I can't all the way tell.
 
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