Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Johanna Draper Carlson on Love Stage!! Vol. 1. Emilia on The Photographer. James Kaplan on Wolf #1.

* I don't have much interest in alternative versions of well-known superheroes, but I'm sort of intrigued by how popular they are considering that the core properties in some cases are weaker than they've been in and the use of alternative versions more and more frequent.

* this article is pretty typical of hardcore fan derision for constant reboots of Spider-Man, and the perception that this keeps these corporate characters from developing, as opposed to that just being a part of being a corporate character. I do think that the spread of these character across several titles for several years and constantly rejiggering them for a specific audience really weakens the characters for anything except short term, broad media projects. I'm not sure the owners really care about anything but, though.

* not comics: I'm not usually one for writing-advice posts, but this one from Mark Evanier about emotional controls seemed pretty well-stated to me, if your interest in writing involves being prolific in a way that leads to various professional opportunities.

* Michael Cavna looks at some Cosby cartoons.

* Abhay Khosla wonders out loud at the support writers are showing artists in an age where writers are well-treated at the artists' expense. This site did mention the variou structural choices made by companies that put artists into a bad position in terms of being followed by readers, although we didn't go very far down that road. It seems obvious to me if you want to produce so many issues a year and stress the transference of story elements to film and TV that writers are going to be treated as primary talent at times, but maybe it deserves additional exploration as if nothing is obvious.

* Tim Young talks to Lucy Knisley. Brian Cronin talks to Tom Mandrake and John Ostrander. Paul Gravett profiles Sung-Hee Kim.

* finally, Gary Tyrrell addresses a critic of Dean Trippe's long-delayed crowd-funding fulfillment.
 
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