Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Colleen Doran directs our attention to a NYT article about private charities that help out artists. I think that's where we're headed in comics, both becoming part of the wider artistic community in certain ways but also developing homegrown solutions. Of course this is dependent on some people with money showing up. I suspect there's money out there, but it's all being spent on weird stuff.

* Robin McConnell talks to Maurice Vellekoop. MariNaomi talks to Alison Bechdel. Marc Mason talks to Tony Fleecs, Aaron Campbell and Richard Starkings. Tim O'Shea talks to Doug Dabbs. Brendan Burford talks to Mike Peters.

* I have no idea why this is sitting in my bookmarks, or, honestly, what it is. But there you go.

* I keep on meaning to link to this piece on impulse buying. This is a tough issue all-around for comics, as things like uneven ordering patterns and price conspire against taking a flier on certain material. Not to get all Abe Simpson about it, but certainly comics being so cheap that impulse buys were a common thing was a part of a lot of lifelong comics readers' initial experience with the medium. Couldn't even begin to suggest a solution, but realizing that this is more difficult now would have to be a good thing.

* Nicholas Rombes on Interiorae. Daniel Kalder on Drawings From The Gulag. Rob Clough on The Adventures Of Hergé. Bob Temuka on My Friend Dahmer. Don MacPherson on Superman Family Adventures #1. Sean Gaffney on GTO: 14 Days In Shonan Vol. 3. Johanna Draper Carlson on Please God, Find Me A Husband! Ben on Tale Of Sand. James Hunt on Incredible Hulk #8. Sean T. Collins on Nurse Nurse.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco walks around recent criticisms of mainstream comics with a link round-up, putting in several words of his own.

* not comics: I'm thinking part of investing like a superhero is taking every opportunity to deduct a $40 night out at the movies.

* speaking of things that left me sort of confused. I know that Slave Labor and Toonseum were at some point seeking some sort of public-approbation related acknowledgment or funding from non-profit sources. I never could figure out exactly what those things were, but both those entities do fine work and if you're a fan you might want to poke around in the individual links.

* John Jackson Miller continues to provide the valuable service of following his curiosity into little-explored areas of comics circulation and sales figures.

* one nice about TCJ's current state of affairs is that I find myself waiting for their coverage on certain things, like that big conference on comics that took place in Chicago.

* I want to pull this away from the other profiles so that maybe it won't get lost in the paragraph set-up: Kevin Plummer begins a look at Jimmy Frise.

* I'll pull a visual from one of these and link to all of them on Friday, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow the Sara Varon diary at TCJ starting with day one.

* finally, here's a Dave Lapp comic for your enjoyment.
 
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