Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I just ran across this link in my bookmarks folder, so I'm not sure where it came from, but how long has Microcosm been a distributor? Is that new? Sort of new? Ten years in? I couldn't possibly tell you, but there it is.

* Abhay Khosla on Prophet. Don MacPherson on Archie & Friends All-Stars Vol. 17. Brian Hibbs on a bunch of different comics. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Justice Society Of America: Supertown. Sterg Botzakis on The Salon. Craig Fischer on National Lampoon.

* speaking of Abhay Khosla -- we were, in the first item in the bulleted point preceding this one -- here's a short piece on negative reactions to criticism.

* not comics: this was indeed very neat-looking.

* this latest Team Tucker effort at TCJ is kind of odd, mostly in that a lot of the waved-hand proclamations about Garfield don't ring true. A lot of people do think the first three years of the strip were a golden age that was very different than what has come since, and I've heard people argue about the different Paws, Inc. artists. Also, I think Winnie The Pooh crushes Garfield in the kids market. That kind of thing. I don't know, maybe it's not worth hashing out. That one just struck me as weird.

* one of CR fine readers wrote in to express some astonishment that Lynda Barry sells stuff on Etsy. That makes me think that maybe some people don't know about that.

* Paul Gravett writes about AGC's comics. That's a nice picture of Patricia Highsmith.

* on the Daredevil-related origins of the band name The Teardrop Explodes.

* so here's a fan letter from a 15-year-old Warren Ellis. You know, if you had talked to me about the Internet of 2012 back in 1995 or so -- and why wouldn't you have, this is a fascinating subject, and I was an interesting young man that liked to have civil conversations -- I would have guessed that the one thing we'd have access to is some kind of site or resource or listing of all the comics professionals letters in various comics publication. Ed Brubaker in Firestorm. That kind of thing. We might have this, I'm not sure, but it's not authoritative, as I'm still at least able to note when I see a new one like this Ellis piece.

* Tom Heintjes talks to Qiana Whitted and Brannon Costello. Michael Cavna talks to Matthew Olin.

* finally, they've disabled easy use of imagery, so I can't separate these into their own posts anymore, but here's a Susie Cagle piece at Cartoon Movement.
 
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