Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* go here for a lengthy profile of Reg Smythe and Andy Capp. I think that's an underrated strip. How underrated is a different question.

* Heidi MacDonald makes a really good point in this article that longstanding hostile behavior to female customers ingrained in the mainstream companies has become reinforced by the specific role each of those comics companies plays in the overall corporate strategies engaged by their owners. I'm always a little uncomfortable using an economic argument against massively successful corporations when I'm so unsuccessful at such things that I can barely afford my own, meager existence; using imaginary profits as a club even if their existence sounds perfectly logical always sounds a bit dubious to me, too. Still, the preponderance of rational thinking would seem to indicate that there's money to be made by being less horrible, with the advantage that you also get to be less horrible. As MacDonald smartly points out, that doesn't mean it will ever happen. Reforming the mainstream comics companies seems a very dated strategy in a lot of ways: it was not what finally gave us a self-sustaining group of non-childish, literary comics starting back in the '70s; it's not likely to give us a mass of comics aimed at women readers and facilitating the talents of female creators now.

* via Devlin Thompson comes this post featuring found photos of people with comic books.

* Rob Clough on The Clown Show: Cycles. Bob Temuka on Invincible Vol. 14. Greg McElhatton on Bloodshot #1 and Cow Boy: A Boy And His Horse. Christopher Allen on Captain Marvel #1 and a bunch of comics that came out in July.

* I don't exactly pay a lot of attention to eBay sales of comics, but a big chunk of whatever money is raised from this one goes to charity.

* Kiel Phegley talks to Grant Morrison, a Hall Of Fame Interviewee if there ever was one. I guess it's sort of interesting that he's backing away from his regular serial superhero comics work, but as Morrison has always moved around project-to-project in his career, that strikes me more of a story for those comics series rather than for Morrison. That is an A-list creator leaving books; that line doesn't have a whole lot of A-listers working for it.

* this is a great photo of Bagge, Clowes and Todd.

* oh, Shevlin.

* finally, Marc Tyler Nobleman tracks various efforts -- including his own -- to find Bill Finger a credit of some sort in the Dark Knight and related Batman movies.
 
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