Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* hooray for Richard Thompson. Hooray for Chris Sparks. Hooray for Team Cul De Sac.

* the folks over at Diversions Of The Groovy Kind pay homage to the floating-head motif as employed by John Buscema. One of the things I like about John Buscema's covers is how much directional clash there is in them; rather than suggesting a sweep to the left of right, a lot of Buscema covers pummel the middle from both directions.

* not comics: so apparently there weren't that many bookstores back in the day. This doesn't really surprise me. I can remember even into the 1970s that visiting the bookstore section of Marshall Fields in Chicago was a big deal, and that place was about as big as the blank-journal section of an average Barnes & Noble.

* Mark Urycki talks to Derf Backderf. Paul Pope talks to Rudolph Arnheim.

* I could link to this every day. Seriously, if you're older than 25, uninsured, and you're somehow not fully engaged in securing yourself insurance of some sort and/or knowing what programs out there are available to you, you should probably use any time spent reading this blog doing some of that. It's not like getting insurance is ever easy for folks, but there's a difference between being unable to get insured, or insured easily, and just having no idea if you could get insured or not because you've never attempted it: I think there are more comics people in that last group than would care to admit it.

* Rob Clough on Nurse Nurse. Dan Morrill on Suicide Girls. Greg McElhatton on Harbinger #1. Todd Klein on Swamp Thing #9.

* I love detailed drawings of superhero headquarters almost as much as I love ridiculously crude drawings of superhero headquarters.

* I may love blueprints of comics bullpens even more than both of those things combined.

* Jeet Heer on that recent spate of stories that somehow defy my writing a descriptive passage about them this morning.

* Julia Pohl-Miranda goes to BEA.

* finally, two of you sent me links to this article, I guess because my name's in it as one of those people that's lucky with Before Watchmen in that the line-up of talent is such that it's easy for a discriminating comics reader with certain tastes to boycott it. It's weird that my name gets mentioned as someone who got lucky in that way, as I have a pretty solid track record of writing laudatory pieces on Darwyn Cooke, to the point that I actually contributed a piece to his last book. I was really early on Paul Pope, too, who's doing a cover. Personally, there aren't ten people in comics I enjoy seeing more than either one of those two guys. I mean, what can I say? We disagree. I hope that at some con in 2057 they'll push our wheelchairs together so we can argue about it. In general, and to the greater point, I'd say I've been pretty consistent on the point that the quality of the books doesn't really have significant influence on what drives my disappointment in the project, and I'm kind of baffled as to why it would. I wish they didn't exist no matter how good they end up being. I'm also not totally sure why it's fruitful to argue about awesome comics we imagine could exist when we can wait a few months and see what we get and argue those.
 
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