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August 10, 2015


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Zack Smith starts a long, multi-part interview with Christopher Priest about his Black Panther run.

image* Todd Klein on Doctor Fate #1. Terry Gilliam on Harvey Kurtzman. Benn Ray on a bunch of different comics. Mey on Not Funny Ha-Ha. Dan Kois on Wuvable Oaf. Pete Redrup on a bunch of different comics. Nick Nafpliotis on Fante Bukowski. Gregg Reese on Inner City Romance.

* here's a bit of information on a Joost Swarte New Yorker cover.

* not comics: there are too many TV shows, and we are about to reach peak TV. I think there's a lesson for comics in there but comics is different in that it's really difficult to establish a low fee threshold below which the production of comics is impossible. In fact, many individual proprietors are willing to go into debt in order to provide work to the marketplace.

* the Trouble With Comics crew looks at the future of floppies.

* Kate Beaton will be on tour.

* Brian Heater talks to Leah Hayes. Alex Dueben talks to Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger. Terry Flores profiles Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper. Chris Moukarbel profiles Team Massive.

* here's a review round-up on SuperMutant Magic Academy, a book I'm greatly looking forward to seeing.

* finally, Derf wonders out loud what doing cartoons would be like on college campuses today.
 
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