Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Signe Wilkinson is ending Family Tree, a well-liked comic strip that never really caught fire. She did it for three-and-a-half years. Family Tree recently lost its place in the Philadelphia market where Wilkinson is a well-known and award-winning editorial cartoonist.

* the author Philip Nel says that if you give him a good title for his forthcoming book featuring Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss, or something close to the title they end up using, he'll send you a nice copy of the book. (That's not the cover or anything, I just like that image.)

* this Grendel image took me back, although it feels like 40 years ago instead of 26.

* go to Book Club with Evan Dorkin.

* you should download and listen to Charles Brownstein's history of comics censorship.

* Johanna Draper Carlson reviews the sixth volume of Bakuman. Matt Seneca digs into Zegas #1. Rob Clough dissects Too Small To Fail. Tucker Stone reflects on SF #1.

* not comics: Noah Van Sciver is selling framed art to make rent.

* a Roman Muradov comic for John Martz.

* Ben Morse picks his favorites of November 2011's (mostly) mainstream comic book covers.

* Ken Parille argues that people miss out on the black humor and philosophical underpinnings in Steve Ditko's non-Marvel '60s work. I think that's an intriguing piece, although I doubt anyone past the generation of kids that were actually consuming Ditko's superhero comics ever asked out loud why he couldn't do some more books in that vein. For most he's simply a non-entity.

* Greg Rucka talks about the limits of gritty.

* finally, a not-comics item from the "things that may only interest me" department: if I'm reading the Facebook posts correctly, Scott Morse and Zander Cannon were married on the same day 10 years ago yesterday (not to each other).

 
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