Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there's been a bunch of scorecard-keeping, not crucially important to my eye back-and-forths in the Siegel Family/DC case. The hobby business news and analysis site has the most terse and time-saving round-up.

* this post about the early business cards and promotional materials being put out there by 1980s comics company Comico is a lot of fun.

* from the "nobody's really done that yet, have they?" files comes word that Rina Piccolo is illustrating random tweets.

* Comics Comics lets us know about the on-line publication of Jonathan Rosenbaum's essay on the movie Crumb, now part of its Criterion packaging. There was a time when Jonathan Rosenbaum was very important to the writer of this blog, I think more for the way he perceived the world of film rather than for the content of his reviews.

* I believe it's Trina Robbins' birthday today. She's opted out of the single-post birthday wishes here at CR, but that doesn't mean if you know her you shouldn't double-check to see if I'm right and maybe drop her a line.

* Brigid Alverson points out that Ben Bova isn't doing anyone a favor by advocating for literacy and then trashing an entire form of expression within a medium based on conjecture and limited examples. My counter-examples wouldn't be the same as Alverson's, but no one should have to argue that there are comics with levels of characterization much deeper and more profound than those in Valley Of The Dolls. That's just stupid. Also, I think 1968 Dick Cavett wants his humorous bad book example back.

* I haven't been following this story, but the headline is a best-of-year candidate for sure.

* finally, I always enjoy the "Nobody Favorite" posts at Armagideon Time; this latest is a bit off the beaten path, and I enjoy its discussion of the ongoing youth's quests of trying to marry superhero comics to role-playing games.
 
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