Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a picture of the deal that the Siegel families may have had waiting for them before litigation started has begun to take serious shape. This is important because the floating assertion that it's the litigation screwing up an equitable settlement over Superman a) could be true, I don't yet know enough to say, and b) is certainly believed by a large number of comics professionals to be true. Rather than surging to a fake-legalistic pinning down of what that means, I suggest for now people just read the linked-to article and take in all the words.

* Dan Nadel, who has written extensively on underground/outsider perspectives mainstreamed into comic books, write a bit here about where 1980s indy fantasy comics might fit into that framework. One thing that sort of fascinates me about those comics is how quickly they've disappeared. It is easier to find most Golden Age comics than it is to find stuff that was everywhere 25 years ago.

* Martin Eden of Spandex provides a short history of gay and lesbian superheroes.

* Russ Simonini speaks to Brian Chippendale. Smoky Man talks to Chris Weston. Jim Rugg and Jasen Lex interview Keenan Marshall Keller.

* Daryl Cagle posts a number of Andy Griffith-related cartoons from folks who syndicate through his site.

* I've got Eldon Dedini fever, and, let's face it, a cure would be a curious allocation of healthcare resources. So why not enjoy it?

* Michael Buntag has been posting photos from various San Diego cons. Ben Morse is telling some celebrity- and coworker-driven stories here.

* Sonia Harris draws comparisons between Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? and the Pixar movie Brave. A better blogger than I am would make a funny joke here about something, I'm sure, but it's the holiday and I'm a bit tired.

* not comics: I haven't read that many reviews of the Amazing Spider-Man movie because I'm not that interested in seeing the Amazing Spider-Man movie, but here's a reasonably engaging piece. I assume it's a quality movie; there are good people involved and that's great source material.

* not comics: here's J. Chris Campbell's 4th of July offering.

* Augie De Blieck, Jr. on Daredevil: Born Again.

* I don't always find it necessary to read all the articles about an issue about which I've already learned the basic, but I do tend to make time for Milton Griepp on mainstream publishing news. He covers the new Marvel publishing initiative Marvel Now! here, and underlines some of the structural things they're doing with the comics, which is pretty fascinating even if you don't like those kinds of things or those kinds of comics.

* only in comics would the desire to only read awesome comics be examined for the downside of what that means to less-awesome work, but I understand what the writer is getting at. One of the reasons it's important that comics have a wide audience and not just an audience base with a wide audience base's buying power is that more comics survive with more people buying them because there are more access points that might tickle an audience than a select few. I'm not sure that sentence scans, but there you go.

* finally, Periscope Studios sent out a press release and everything in announcing that Grace Allison was joining their studio.
 
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