Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Ben Towle discusses the James Sturm and Art Baxter response in comics form to Understanding Comcis, "Build A Beach Head," with commentary from the creators. Towle makes the great point that Understanding Comics has power simply because it's presented as text, and the Sturm-Baxter work is one of the few to question some of its basic assumptions while being presented in a style that matches McCloud's equally persuasive use of comics.

* no one sells comics like Frank Santoro sells comics. Literally, no one else sells them like this.

* the third person in the site's history of mentioning birthdays wrote in to say they were dismayed by having their age revealed. As always, I'm happy to delete an entry upon anyone's request. Just to be clear: to the best of my knowledge, I don't reveal anyone's age that's not out there on the Internet already. Also, I'm deeply uninterested in wishing people a happy birthday sans their age. For me, 90 percent of what's interesting about the birthdays is marking the age of certain cartoonists and comics people, which I think adds specific historical context to a wide variety of matters. Being reminded that the bulk of the 1970s and early 1980s indie creators are at the very least approaching 60 has changed the urgency with which I write about certain industry issues, and knowing that many if not most of the underground creators are ten years older than that alters my expectations for further works from certain groups of cartoonists. I have to admit, I also lack whatever gene it takes to fully understand why anyone not a Hollywood actress creeping towards 40 would want to lie about their age or hide it from view. Still, we all have our hang-ups and our preferences and I'm happy to delete those notices when asked. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

* veteran convention warrior Mark Evanier muses on WonderCon, and the potential for it to be somewhere other than San Francisco next Spring.

* I've always liked the Black Terror. That's a pretty freaky costume in the context of its day, plus that name says "I have serious mental problems and I'm going to inflict them on you."

* I would sort of hope the bioethics industry had more on its plate than to be able to fret over the implications of the narrative in the Captain America, but from what people are sending along maybe that's just me.

* Amazon.com may be one heck of a comics retailer, but they're kind of a jerky one.

* more classic Richard Sala illustrations.

* not comics: Johanna Draper Carlson catches word that Jordan Crane's The Last Lonely Saturday has been adapted into a short film. It could be that everyone already knew that.

* following Graeme McMillan following Jim Shooter's blog finally paid off: he notes the publication of post-legal action (from Disney) Howard The Duck character sketches.

* hey, there's a Gary Panter Fans group on Facebook.

* finally, Richard Thompson presents not one, not two but three comics about cicadas.
 
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