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August 11, 2015


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to Ellen Forney on being named Seattle's best cartoonist and good on Max Clotfelter for shooting some cannon shot across the bow of Generation Seattle 1990s by being named the runner-up.

image* Sean Gaffney on Maid-sama! Vols. 1-2. Chris Mautner on Stroppy. Quincy Rhoads on Dörfler.

* portrait of Tony Millionaire as a young man.

* not comics: I'm glad that people are donating to the Travis Fristoe fund, as sad as its existence makes me.

* I don't know what this is, but I'm a sucker for the line "I regret everything."

* Andy Oliver recommends a bunch of small-press works.

* the Columbus Dispatch talks to Hilliard's Packrat Comics after their recent Eisner Spirit Of Retailing win. Exploring the topic around here I haven't found out much new information about Columbus-area retailing, but I have noticed that no one I know in Columbus wants to go Hilliard with me.

* Jesus, you jerk.

* the Norman Rockwell museum would like to tell you about Derf.

* Tereixa Constenla talks to David Aja. Joseph Phillip Illidge talks to Gene Yang. Neon Pajamas talks to Jon Vermilyea. Whitney Joiner talks to Phoebe Gloeckner. Nancy Updike talks to Phoebe Gloeckner. Jessica Zack talks to Phoebe Gloeckner about her SF memories.

* go, look: Joe Orlando + Al Feldstein in a kind of Underrated Cartoonist Team-Up.

* finally, career wisdom from Billy DeBeck.
 
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