Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if only Mr. Yellow Hat had come out against health insurance being made more widely available in comics instead of Rob Liefeld's drawing ability.

* the cultural historian and critic Jeet Heer takes on the subject of Felix the Cat and black face.

* there's a nice exchange between the writer Gil Roth and the cartoonist Richard Sala regarding some ten-year-old review and interview stuff here.

* not comics: Robert Kirkman's Walking Dead is headed to AMC with director Frank Darabont spearheading the adaptation of the comic book into prestige series form. That seems like a good fit for a very effective and consistently well-done mainstream comic book -- one of the important comics of this decade.

* I can't remember from whom I initially bookmarked this, so I apologize to that person, and I haven't read it yet, but it's apparently part of a feature on Rob Liefeld killed by Wizard...?

* the New York Times talks sales and success via Unknown Soldier.

* a friend of mine gave me some e-mail grief over my joking my way through the question of what graphic novel you give someone who hasn't read one before. I wasn't kidding for the sake of kidding; I just don't have a serious answer for that question. I don't generally suggest reading material to my friends, first of all. If I did I guess I'd suggest something in a genre they like or on a topic they find interesting. My Mom liked Persepolis; a lot of my friends growing up enjoyed Bob Burden's stuff; Matt Groening's books were on every beat-up coffee table in every ramshackle house with a bad nickname I shared during college; I had a hard time keeping Fun Home in the house. Some of the people I know would rather vomit something bright yellow on my outstretched, funnybook-bearing arm than ever read a comic. Everyone's different.

* although now that I think of it, there is a comics collection I've given out more times than any other trade paperback as a gift -- maybe 12 to 15 times now -- and no one's complained. It's probably not what you think. Great book, though.

* the recently-unretired Bill Schorr discusses his return to editorial cartooning.

* I think we can all agree that Silverton, Oregon's "Homer Davenport Days" may be the most awesome thing named after a cartoonist that's not a wildlife refuge.

* anything I write here will be construed as something I didn't intend to say.

* finally, there's a fun interview with Fantagraphics Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds at PW here. Reynolds talks about how Fantagraphics changed his life and some of the forthcoming books from that company in which he's perhaps more directly involved.
 
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