Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comic strip Pickles has an astounding 500 clients.

* the writer Sean T. Collins speaks to Jordan Crane, who is almost always fun to read in interview format.

* Dustin Harbin and Andrew Mansell are interviewed here about The Heroes Discussion Group. I didn't know anyone had discussion groups.

* go here for a very cute picture of the X-Men. It's sort of interesting in that while X-Men was probably the lousiest of the Lee/Kirby creations in terms of its routine execution, it's surprisingly sturdy in a conceptual sense -- much more so than the stuff that came later, where I would argue in a similar scene only Wolverine and Kitty Pryde would register in the same way while the other characters would have to be shoehorned into whatever cute thing they would be doing and would likely still overwhelm the moment rather than connect to some sort of shared experience. I mean, you look at Marvel Girl and Cyclops on that couch and it's not like they're particularly iconic characters but you sense that, yeah, they'd totally stay in to have a date like that, and you probably know a couple that's like them in that way.

* my mutant power is run-on sentences.

* slavery = always funny.

* in my opinion, America needs a Colt 45 can designed by J. Chris Campbell, and we should all do whatever we can to help make this possible.

* I don't know about you, but there's nothing that gets me more fired up about this beautiful art form than the thought of a bunch of suits in a room trying to figure out how to better exploit the creative work they've acquired from a series of creators and plan to never let back into the public domain.

* this article about one man's endeavors to get Chicago to recognize Hal Foster as the city's son is fun to read even though it's a huge stretch to make Foster responsible for all of comics considering a billion things such as, say, how popular the medium was for decades before he was successful.

* finally, is it my imagination, or does this interview with new Image publisher Eric Stephenson hint that the company may at some point in the future go for a piece of the media rights pie? I'm asking that seriously; I can't tell.
 
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