Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Howard Chaykin remembers Leonard Starr.

* Richard Bruton on SAM Volume Two: Robot Hunters. John Kane on a bunch of different comics. Johanna Draper Carlson on Saved By The Bell.

* Michael Cavna and Sara Duke talk about Benjamin Franklin as a media-savvy, cartoon-conscious cultural maestro, including but not limited to the might "Join, Or Die" segemented snake cartoon that kind of brought at lot of political issues to a blunt point. Duke, from the Library Of Congress, spoke about a similar Franklin effort last week.

* praise for the new DC Comics-published portrayal of their Midnighter as single, sexually active and comfortably so.

* Mike Luckovich breaks the law.

* over in the CBR family of blogs, Greg Hatcher writes about the role of comfort-food reading, and how Nexus is one of those comics that does that job for him. I think the thrill of the familiar is a positive impulse. Getting to know a work intimately reveals secrets that a one-night stand will not.

* astute observer of mainstream comics in particular Carla Hoffman examines the newness and differentness of Marvel's line. I find these reconfigurations kind of off-putting as an older fan and not in a way that I'm turning up my nose but in that I don't pay enough attention so that all of these changes confuse me. With the necessity of revolving art teams on most title due to publishing more than 12 times a year, I can't even really follow artist/writer teams the way I used to. I'm so not the audience, though.

* finally, a not-comics item: Roman Muradov provides an illustration for the Criterion edition of Day For Night.
 
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