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July 23, 2015


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Sean Gaffney on Alice In Murderland Vol. 1. Rob Clough on Stroppy.

* Fiona Smyth, Fiona Smyth, Fiona Smyth.

* not comics: another two-paper town bites the dust. Two-newspaper towns are a fading historical element that at one point allowed for a lot of strips to make money: two options in one market always beat a single option.

* Dave Richards talks to Jason Aaron. Brigid Alverson talks to Mike Baron. Jim Vorel talks to Bill Willingham. Andy Oliver profiles Lucy Bellwood. Oliver Ristau and Shawn Starr talk to Alex Degen.

* a bunch of European comics publishers are getting together to assist each other along on a push in to the US market.

* this list makes no sense to me.

* my favorite writer about comics, Bob Levin, graces us with a piece on one oddball subject: Fogel's Underground Price & Grading Guide.

* finally, here's Sarah Horrocks on why porn by its nature might distort a standard critical inquiry.
 
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