Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* accusations fly of a sex comic making it into the hands of fifth graders in Guadalajara. Even though Don Quixote is involved, there are no "tilting at windmills" jokes.

* here's a nice interview with Eddie Campbell. If you have time to read just one thing today comics-wise, I'd vote for this.

* the next wave of magnificent graphic novels is on the way!

* surely there's room in just about every newspaper for both Mutts and Zits -- those are the kind of twin poles around which a modern newspaper comics page should be built, and they'd be in my top five if I were building a page from scratch. I also have a hard time believing the latter really works as an inducement for teenage readers to any significant degree over the former.

* everyone who's listened to it tells me that this Lauren Weinstein interview is the cat's meow. Okay, maybe not in exactly those words, and I don't know anyone's that listened to it, but Weinstein can be very funny on her feet.

* here's a nice list of comics broken down by age group all of which celebrate cultural diversity in some way.

* I have no idea why so many people are treating the two-week lead up to Comic-Con International as one extended day-before-the-con-starts, but there are some interesting items popping up here and there in between the breathless news of what celebrity is going to be where and how stressed out X, Y, Z comics person feels. I like this one-pager designed by Dave Kellett to remind people he's there and where he is and what he has to offer. Someone could do a guide like this and kill.

* the prominent blogger and cartoonist Daryl Cagle continues his AAEC convention video interviews with a pair featuring Jen Sorensen and Mikhaela Reid.

* finally, I did not know that Zep did a sex book. Another thing I can't imagine happening in the US, although I guess there's always hope for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid guy.
 
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