Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist and prominent blogger Gerry Alanguilan alerts his readership to an anti-obscenity law being debated in the Philippines that if passed could have dreadful consequences.

* I totally missed this John K post on composition in the work of Harvey Kurtzman, Howie Post and Milt Gross.

* the artist Humberto Ramos provides a long appreciation of his friend, the late cartoonist Carlos Meglia.

* this analysis of the decline of the traditional comic book format is pretty much all supposition, no analysis, and it doesn't get into how important serial comic book sales are to the big American mainstream companies, which gives them a vested interest in seeing they continue above and beyond their general market prospects. Still, it's worth reading if you're interested in an outlook shared by a lot of comics readers.

* various comics professionals respond to Robert Kirkman's video from earlier this week that painted a vision of the American comic book industry he'd like to see.

* finally, that list of quality 1990s superhero comics has been supplemented with your suggestions, at least where I could through a dim memory of my own or through knowledge of the suggesting party's taste have at least a tiny bit of assurance that the suggested work was arguably good. It's funny, I'm not sure you'd come up with such a wide list of non-superhero works were you to ask about another grouping of comics.
 
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