Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* he's the best there is at what he does and what he does is twirl spaghetti.

* here's a short list of fine, practicing journalists in comic books. I think most comics fans are snobbish enough they look for Ben Urich, and my favorite comics journalist and the spiritual forefather of this site is the very not-comics Jack McGee, whose mid-career reassignment to "Hulk beat" most closely mirrors moving from any other field to cover comics. But it's a short list, and journalists should forgive other journalists. I'm also quite fond of Rick Redfern, but he exists well outside the parameters established in this list.

* not comics: I think I remember seeing these on one of the big-boy boards a few months ago, but someone just e-mailed me the link again -- they're kind of cute, I guess.

* comics news: now with boobs.

* here's a roundtable on women comics readers and the respect they're afforded at conventions and generally. That's almost always a worthy subject, although I'm a little lost in this recent spate of such discussion why some offhand messageboard commentary from a few powerless dorks on a couple of superhero sites castigating the Twilight fans has so many people thinking there's some sort of mass shunning of Twilight fans on deck at CCI. That place has been stuffed with female fans for a half-dozen years now, and I can't imagine a bit flailing about by a certain group of nerds changes anything. There's almost something to the thought that such fans need protecting or even special advocacy that strikes me as wrong, too, but I'm not sure I know why. Female comics fans are just comics fans, I'd say, and should be afforded all due respect to pursue their individual enthusiasms.

* Heidi MacDonald asks after the comics industry approach to press at Comic-Con. I have some thoughts on this I'll hopefully share by next week. In short, I think the access issues are way, way different.

* finally, Levon Jihanian sketches. (With a loud musical accompaniment, so watch out.)
 
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