Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jog writes about Phoebe Gloeckner in that weekly new comics round-up he does where he always seem to write at length on some barely related topic. It's about "Minnie's 3rd Love" specifically, and I've always thought that an astonishing comic.

* Timothy Callahan is buying Cerebus, lots of Cerebus. By the way, I read the full version of Tim Kreider's piece on Cerebus in the new Journal and it's really good. Kreider provides a smart and very sympathetic reading, although I'm not sure a super-devoted Cerebus fan would see it that way.

* not comics: I did not know that Frances Bean Cobain has an Al Columbia tattoo.

* comics historian Mark Evanier explains to a reader of his blog how Fantastic Four could have come out in August 1961 despite having a date on it that says November 1961.

* for all that the Fantastic Four comics worked in the 1960s, I'm somehow not a big fan of placing the characters in the 1960s. That's a nice picture and everything, I just don't get a thrill out of seeing those characters "in their time" the way someone could surmise I might from my affection for the original Lee-Kirby run. What can I say? I'm complicated.

* Rob Clough reviews Isle Of 100,000 Graves. By the way, since a dozen or so of you asked, reviews return to this site after Labor Day, when I hope to offer a straight four-or-more-reviews-per-week run right until mid-December. Thanks for your patience.

* book publishers always try to get authors of new books to write something for a newspaper editorial in the area of their expertise; I wonder if cartoonists will start doing that, too?

* that was a particularly sad new comics day.

* not comics: I'm not exactly sure why, but this post from Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson killed me.

* wow, that's a lot of X-Men. What's the identity of that Rocky Joe-looking dude in the front row? Also, I forget the codename and even the first name of the Proudstar character, but having a knife out when you're posing for a group picture is just weird.

* finally, I'm pretty certain that this link to an old Amazing Heroes Preview Special for a Fantagraphics collaboration with Alan Moore that never quite happened came from TCJ.com.
 
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