Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* at least one newspaper pulled a Dark Knight Rises-related cartoon over the weekend because of the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Talking about Batman seems to me an odd way to process what happened, particularly at this juncture, but this Sean T. Collins piece on having to do just that offers up some ideas worth considering. I know that there are probably a bunch of editorial cartoons out there using Batman imagery -- probably even a crying Batman or two -- but I'm avoiding those for as long as I can.

* Ben Towle doodles. John Kenn draws. Matt Madden works in wash. Roman Muradov overdoes it. Mattias Adolfsson makes some prints.

* here's a big, long article about women in comics that focuses on the lack of women creators in modern superhero comics and the repellant storylines and depictions that are at times embraced by that corner of the industry. I find the tagged name for the article funny because really, you can keep good creators down if you want, and companies do it all the time. Other than that, I found it interesting there's no mention of Marjane Satrapi when it comes to providing an example of creators that are female and successful and just making their own comics, as I think that mentioning Satrapi in such pieces was required by law as little as 12 months ago. The fact that you can write this article multiple times and use different names for the positive examples every time out is both encouraging and, in that such articles might indeed be written anyway despite this army of counter-examples, sort of weird and depressing.

* Susan Myrland talks to Andrei Molotiu. Sierra Nicole Rhoden talks to Darryl Holliday and Erik Rodriguez. Frank Santoro continues profiling a growing army of new talent.

* not comics: congratulations to Thomas Herpich and Jesse Moynihan.

* what Captain Marvel means to her family.

* Charles Forsman on process.

* David Brothers on recent Conan comics. Rob Clough on the comics of Benjamin Marra. Bob Temuka on Cor!! Annual 1979. Dan Morrill on Saga #1. Greg McElhatton on Bloodshot #1. Sean Gaffney on Wonder! Vol. 2. Sean Kleefeld on Nevsky. Grant Goggans on The Rabbi's Cat Vol. 2. Johanna Draper Carlson on Archie Archives Vol. 6. Sterg Botzakis on My Friend Dahmer.

* here's a piece I've yet to read on Dr. Seuss and the Holocaust. I believe the gist of it is that as a cartoonist he was early on the subject when a lot of people avoided it.

* finally, I don't know if this Facebook photo of 1980s alt-comics makers in Devo hair is visible to anyone that looks, but it's pretty great.
 
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