Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* I totally missed this post featuring Richard Thompson in his tuxedo on NCS Awards night accepting The Reuben and posing for photographs.
* not comics: one has to imagine that on the list of 10 Billion Cartoonist Side Gigs Rated In Order Of Coolness, "doing logos for women's roller derby teams" has to place in the single digits.
* the CBLDF continues its very nice series of interviews with regular volunteers.
* the revelation for me in reading someone revisit DC's self-selected essential graphic novels list is that they actually tweak the thing, for instance dropping The Quitter and adding Pride Of Baghdad. That's not really odd, I guess, although I'd love to know how the provenance of each tweak.
* finally, here's some love for that Akira poster I've seen pop up on sites without my taking the time to look at it. I always thought those summary kinds of posters -- where the images in the poster encompass and entire movie, comic book series, album, whatever -- would be a great way for the companies to support such series and movie some merchandise on top of that.
* not comics: one has to imagine that on the list of 10 Billion Cartoonist Side Gigs Rated In Order Of Coolness, "
