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July 12, 2016


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Alexander Lu on Snotgirl #1. John R. Parker on Transmetropolitan. Todd Klein on Swamp Thing #6 and Survivors' Club #8.

* Michael Cavna digs into what American cartoonists are making in response to police violence and black lives mattering in America.

* Jason covers Joe Matt. Guy Delisle draws a house. Simon Gane draws Bonnie Parker. Sarah McIntyre draws Virginia Woolf. Colleen Coover draws Josie And The Pussycats.

* Tom Speelman writes about Tarzan comics. Whenever mainstream fans ask me for little-read periods/expressions of mainstream comics, I always point to the Kubert-era Tarzan books and the 1960s/1970s Sub-Mariner series. Those particular Tarzan books have some lovely art, like many other periods in that character's comic-book history.

* there were at various times a lot of different people being Spider-Man.

* not comics: one thing I didn't see in my read of this interesting article about sexist profile-writing in magazines and their on-line equivalents is the notion that empty-headed celebrity profiles are such a crass, dumb enterprise you're already like 80 percent of the way towards writing about someone's good looks or whatever in the stupidest way possible.

* finally, congratulations to Bruce MacKinnon, a new Order of Canada appointee.
 
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