Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* good to live in Gaineseville: Sequential Artists Workshop has announced Dash Shaw and Gabrielle Bell as teachers of Spring 2014 programs.

* Richard Bruton on One Good Thing. Derek Royal on The Unwritten #50-51.

* a podcast reviews this year's Eisner Award winners.

* not comics: let me plop this rant in here about anticipation culture so that I can remember to go and look at the tweet-mashing site that presented it this way.

* not comics: Cameron Stewart's swell Halloween costume, circa 2000.

* not comics; Corey Blake looks at fan pushback as a symptom of personal identification being threatened, which I think is a fair way to understand what goes on a lot of the time with that kind of thing. I think those issues are fairly fascinating, really; I have a lot of sympathy for folks that really buy into certain kinds of art because they're invited to. Why wouldn't they feel discombobulated when that art gets changed on them? I don't think you can hold onto that kind of anger for very long, particularly if you're out of your teens, and some expressions of that are wholly unacceptable, but I do have sympathy for the initial reaction.

* people keep e-mailing me links to this roundtable featuring a bunch of different, talented artists, I guess because they show a level of disdain for the act of reviewing comics? I haven't listened to it yet, but if that's what it is, that sounds fair to me. No one has to like everything, and there's a really strong and sensible tradition of artists in all media not having much use for reviewers and critics. I've never read reviews of stuff I've created. Plus I've written some reviews all-too-worthy of contempt.

* there is one week until the deadline for the next issue of Symbolia. They pay their contributors, so that's worth noting. A lot of the folks that send me e-mail looking for contributors do not. I don't know their rates, but paying is something.

* not comics: I like these Chris Cilla t-shirts.

* not comics: this photo of Jim Blanchard makes me laugh; looks like a cool book, too.

* Sean McDonald talks to Warren Ellis. That's a nice PR photo there.

* a lot of folks earlier this week linked to this PR-generated story about Jim Lee putting the Jack Kirby Argo pages up for auction in order to help pay for his kids going to school.

* finally, Kit McFarlane muses on Superman.
 
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