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June 27, 2019


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* by request extra: putting out a comics call for a convalescing brother. When I was sick in 2011, that kind man Jeff Smith sent me a bunch of his research comics for that Shazam mini-series and I was so touched I will remain so until the end of my life. There was even one with Tawky Tawny.

* I didn't know this existed. That's pretty cool.

* I do think as stated yesterday that we're in a modest collapse period with comics right now rather than an adjustment period or a period with unintended consequences. This isn't something I'd argue in the particulars, because you can shift the definitions slightly and come up with a different conclusion. All I mean is that it strikes me that there are enough things going away that enough people would prefer not to go away that it characterizes the moment, with a concurrent loss in status and reward for artists involved they'd perhaps rather not have. I am concerned for some cultural loss but mostly for people whose livelihoods feel the impact of the changes.

* not comics: here's a New Yorker piece people keep sending me about the general insanity of crowd-funding something like health care.

* finally: here's a piece from Abraham Risman on KC Green grappling with how to make a meme taken and used by others his own thing again, with attendant recognition and profit.
 
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