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July 14, 2010


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* most people know by now that the CBLDF now takes part in free speech advocacy outside of defending comics people from crappy laws, as a way of improving the rights landscape in general, right?

image* there's nothing better than seeing pages out of Dustin Harbin's sketchbooks. Okay, there are a lot of things that are better, but it's still pretty fun to see Dustin's sketchbook pages.

* Brigid Alverson is always right.

* I liked celebrity travel host and food author Anthony Bourdain's over the top send-off to Harvey Pekar. I think it was heartfelt in its hyperbole, and you could do worse than comparing Pekar to Emile Zola and Joseph Mitchell as chroniclers of specific cities in specific times. That made me stop and think even though I don't agree with it. CBR should offer him a column.

* some of my friends think every French comics album looks like the one at the top of this article. Not some of them: all of them.

* the idea of lost interviews may seem kind of weird, but there are a lot of damn interviews out there.

* not comics: attention all movie studios: please send more flip cameras. Thank you.

* I have a semi-amusing "morons watching Diana Rigg on TV" story, if anyone wants to hear one.

* finally, I really like that jacket.
 
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