August 9, 2010
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Matthew Brady
pulls out various panels from
Black Blizzard, with minimal commentary.
* Paul Gravett, as unpredictable a writer as exists in comics' top-tier,
profiles Oliver Frey.
* if you were going to ask me what one comics-related thing you should read today, barring a story that breaks between Sunday night and Monday morning I'd say you could do much worse than this measured review of the new book about Vince Colletta,
The Thin Black Line. I'm not sure I'd follow the book's author all the way out into projected collective daddy-issues analysis as Nadel seems to suggest, but it wasn't a book I considered reading at all until reading this essay.
* Gregory Noveck, the guy who had the unofficial title of spearheading DC Comics' efforts in the Land Of Hollywood before the company decided that other people should be that either instead or in addition to Mr. Noveck,
has left the company to return to film producing. As far as I can tell, no one had any other result in the pool.
* I can't imagine any construction of comics history where CrossGen was a major player except in fostering more "what the hell is going on over there" than any other publisher of its time,
but it's good that someone spoke to ex-staffers about Marvel being asked by its corporate parent to revive some of those titles. Although I bet that would have gotten over to bigger effect in comics if they had just had a bunch of those characters show up and beat crap out of the Avengers one issue.
* Frank Santoro
tells a slightly depressing story.
* finally, is
that cover on the left 25X more interesting to look at than the one on the right despite all conventional wisdom about comics cover, or is it 50X more interesting?
posted 11:10 am PST |
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