June 3, 2010
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* I really like the faces on Charlie Brown and Linus
here. I'm also sort of in love with that variation of the Halloween call-out.
* not comics: one way that
Gary Coleman's death relates to comics is that Coleman was the walking embodiment of the fragility of creative reward. A noxious argument that frequently gets used to excuse exploitation in the arts is that an artist gains by being in close proximity to a first success and then makes their real money later on. But with Coleman, what he did to make people money had the obvious, limited shelf-life of his childhood. Even with the most generous appraisal of his talent, there was clearly little in the way of a "later on" out there for Coleman, a limited array of opportunities to capitalize on his first major success. You can suggest an imaginary set of circumstances where Coleman remained relevant as a performer into his twenties and thirties, but it didn't happen, and it doesn't seem like a reasonable outcome in retrospect no matter how many scenarios one devises. Thus the fact that he failed to maximize reward during his flush period becomes that much more tragic. You can't even take the usual tack, which is to flip blame back on Coleman about how it was up to him to defend himself, as Coleman was 10 when
Diff'rent Strokes started filming. Coleman's story is another reason why it's important that all creative people are properly rewarded, and not exploited, on any and all projects, not just the ones the people that are profiting all along deem are open to such criticism. (image borrowed from a publicity still; I assume that's okay, but if it's not, I'll take it down)
*
this is heartwarming.
*
the D+Q store was featured in Travel & Leisure.
* not comics:
Moomins wallpaper. It kind of makes me want to re-fashion my entire life so that at some place within it this would be a good idea.
* Devlin Thompson sent
this in admitting it's slight and obvious, but it's also pretty amusing. From the same site comes
this cute-looking t-shirt.
* everyone's favorite Brigid Alverson
comments on reports that Vertical and Dark Horse are doing pretty well with their manga offerings, thank you very much.
* finally, Chris Onstad cooks!
Testicle! I suspect the reason Onstad is a comedy genius and the rest of us aren't has something to do with the fact that it's the singular form "testicle" here.
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