Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Giant Robot interviews Brian Ralph. If you haven't gone to see Ralph's first of what should be a week of diary cartoons centered on Comic-Con International 2011, you really should.

* Chris Mautner talks Jack Cole at this Comics College column. He suggests that the Plastic Man Archives series has been suspended after eight volumes, which is too bad because it took a while for Cole to get really going there.

* general error alert: my writing has been sloppy enough recently for me to conflate the Kirby Estate with any actions taken by his heirs distinct from that Estate; I deeply regret the mistake wherever I made it and I won't make it again.

* today's bookmark-and-save feature is surely this interview with Charles Brownstein of the CBLDF over at Graphic Novel Reporter.

* Matt Dembicki offers up a nice set of photos from Saturday's DC Zinefest. Ryan Cecil Smith has a report from the 2011 Tokyo Art Book Fair.

* as far as guilty pleasures go, you could do worse than Andrea Tsurumi's.

* not comics: apparently, more personal films from talented creators will save superhero movies. Save them from consistent, massive domestic gross box office figures, I guess.

* if you've ever felt bad about that period in your life when you couldn't remember if it was "Spiderman" or Spider-Man, Scott Edelman has good news: Marvel didn't know right away, either.

* it appears that the answer to my long-standing question as to why more comics publisher don't have their cartoonists do A-B-C alphabet primers is that plenty of cartoonists already do them, thank you very much.

* certain Aussie advocacy groups are upset with Robert Crumb. In a way, it's nice to know that Crumb is still pissing someone off.

* not comics: Chris Butcher hosts the kind of dinner party that twelve-year-old me would have believed only happens in heaven.

* remember that day when The Atlantic profiled a cartoonist and it didn't seem like this deeply strange, wonderful and unlikely thing?

* not sure exactly what's going on here, but Bastien Vives sure draws one weird-looking Ninja Turtle.

* finally, while I'm not certain if it's still going on or not, any sale involving Drew Weing original art is something worth asking after even if the answer might be "it's over."
 
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