Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Rob Gonsalves argues that Rick Veitch is the greatest living comics artist.

* I nearly missed this just because it sat around in my Bookmarks folder forever, but Richmond Magazine has had a nice, short interview up for a while now with Professor M. Thomas Inge on the new book of essays by Charles Schulz he edited, My Life With Charlie Brown.

* here's another one I almost forgot for the same reason: Friend to CR Jim Kingman on keeping positive about comics even when there are some dreadful comic books out there. This isn't a new kind of essay for a lot of you reading this, but you don't tend to see those sentiments expressed in Jim's corner of comics.

* finally, a couple of weeks ago when we were tossing around great comics finales, I expressed regret that at the time I posted my own ending I couldn't think of a manga series that ended in the way the best comic book and newspaper serials had. Bart Beaty wrote in a couple of days later with an example that had me kicking myself.

I forgot to send this yesterday when I meant to, so it's probably just for you now:

The final few pages of Lone Wolf and Cub are one of the most emotionally moving thing I've ever read in comics. I feared that with a story that vast that they wouldn't be able to nail a proper ending, but they succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

Bart's right; that was a great ending. Good thing Lone Wolf And Cub is a super-obscure manga that no one's heard of, which gets me off the hook for forgetting it.

 
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