Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Scott Edelman scans in the programming pages from the 1971 Seuling con booklet.

* I learned only this week that occasional writer about comics Gene Phillips has a blog, and looking it up and down a bit I was drawn to his long post on 1960s Marvel character The Black Knight. When I was a kid, the older Avengers comics were those comics just out of reach of my own era of reading, so they were like the holy grail of funnybooks. Although I think the cover here is George Tuska, a lot of those comics from that era were done by John Buscema (with Tom Palmer) and that's the artist (and inker) I see in my mind's eye when I think of Marvel Comics from when I was a kid. The reason why I liked Avengers comics when I was a kid is I think I was attracted to what looked like a bunch of giant brutes living in a big house in New York City, occasionally raining down an ass beating on someone the way my Dad would go to work and get the paper out. Or maybe something less scary and therapy-requiring. As far as the Black Knight goes, I always liked superhero characters that carried deadly weapons around, because I was always holding out hope that they would flip out and do something like chop the Melter's arm off.

* I missed this Noah Berlatsky review of the second Moomin volume.

* they've made an on-line comic about my life! Okay, not really. I'm kind of two-dimensional, though.

* the cartoonist Matt Janz is ending Single and Looking.

* this post about comic shops trying to deal with the recent flooding in Iowa caught my interest. Does anyone have any more information on stores in trouble? For that matter, does anyone out there know the final outcome for the owners of the comic shops that were destroyed when Katrina hit New Orleans?
 
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