Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I don't usually recommend comics in the random section, but this little one from John Martz is pretty nice.

* Jeffrey O. Gustafson on The Incal. Bruce Canwell on Daredevil: Dark Nights. Craig Fischer on the Paul series.

* not comics: Today's Inspiration recommends a series of interviews with Stan Galli.

* it's been a while since we had a new post at the Schulz Library Blog, so I kind of fell asleep on this latest one.

* that superior link-blogger Kevin Melrose previews the latest of those Simon & Kirby books and recommends a David Petersen process post. Sometimes I think that Kevin Melrose is the most important comics blogger of them all, or at least the one I'd close five times to kind of prop up the whole enterprise.

* I don't always like the storytelling in the later issues of the initial Jack Kirby/Stan Lee run on Fantastic Four, but there are frequent, individual images as lovely as anything Kirby ever made. Those comics are completely collectible, by the way; I've assembled almost everything from Fantastic Four #60 to #100 for less than $5 a pop -- not in great condition, but not horrible, either. We live in amazing times.

* there's some sort of giveaway contest related to Paul Pope's forthcoming Battling Boy here.

* here's a nice Evan Dorkin strip put up by Sean Howe.

* as much as I think about such things at all I really dislike the Ultimate line of books that Marvel's done over the last several years, even though I know a lot of fans love them. I wouldn't be sad at all if they disappeared forever. I honestly think my actual real life would be better if I had never wrapped my mind around the idea of the Blob character eating the Wasp character. I doubt they will ever go all the way away, though. And if they do, they'll likely return.

* Brigid Alverson writes an article about comics at BEA because Brigid Alverson is a total freakin' pro who does things like that. To be clear, my take on BEA isn't that the show lacks comics content -- it has plenty -- but that it didn't coalesce into a vital cog in the comics calendar Like I thought it would. I'm also sort of routinely interested in that show as a reflection of the print industry, both consciously and subconsciously.

* Paul Gravett profiles Junko Mizuno.

* finally, Keith Knight pays tribute to the actor Jean Stapleton.
 
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