Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I don't follow mainstream comics closely enough to know the players or any specific, contextual issues involved, but Rich Johnston's site told me that Lauren Sankovitch was promoted to full editor, and that seems like a nice thing worth noting. I would also hope that potential-but-sound-legit move-ons for Ben Abernathy and Geoff Boucher involve bigger and better things. Boucher would be a measurable loss to comics' overall coverage in that a specific kind of coverage he provides -- the close, invited coverage of broader mainstream comics moves in light of their movie orientations -- isn't really being done by too many people on a regular basis, except maybe George Gene Gustines at NYT.

* Rob Clough on The Amateurs.

* I can't remember if I linked to this, but here's the writer Kurt Busiek typing about the unrealistic depiction of women in comics.

* not comics. this St. Trinian's-related sculpture sure is cute.

* I don't think I've ever seen this picture of Jack Kirby before. One thing about the tumblr-driven era of the Internet, we're certainly getting to see all of the photos that are out there.

* so I guess wanting to be a superhero apparently has body-image benefits. I can see that.

* how writer Cullen Bunn broke in.

* if there's anything to which this blog routinely links I love the best, it's the Local Cartoonist Profile. Here's one about the farmer/cartoonist Kenneth McClain. It's hard to deny looking at all of those cartoons that having a local cartoonist really used to add something to the papers that were lucky to have them -- I have fond memories of the one that worked my hometown.

* Rebecca Silverman talks to Toshio Maeda and Naoki Urasawa.

* here's a discussion of John Updike at Mardou Comics.

* finally, Matt Brady visited an Anders Nilsen exhibit and would like you to know about what he saw.
 
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