Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* thank to all of you that looked at yesterday's Jack Kirby Birthday Gallery. I was sent a bunch of fun Jack Kirby-related links yesterday, which should roll out in various ways on this site over the next week. Send-ins included this 30-Cent Jack Kirby Gallery, an article by Dean Haspiel, a Jack Kirby sale at TwoMorrows and this tribute to Jack Kirby video. I have yet to look at all the art out there done in tribute, but here's a piece by Evan Dorkin.

* missed it: Chris Mautner chooses his favorite Cul De Sac characters, including the Mighty, Mighty Dill.

* Aaron Long talks to Cullen Bunn. Chris Arrant talks to Leinil Yu. Tim O'Shea talks to Van Jensen.

* best of luck to Jessica Abel and Matt Madden on their family's journey.

* so yesterday was Read Comics In Public Day, which I guess was headquartered here. I'm not sure there's any stigma still attached to comics that could be countered by reading them in public that doesn't mostly exist in the heads of people that were reading comics back when there was a stigma, but god bless whatever anyone wants to do that they thinks helps something or other. By having it on Jack Kirby's birthday they probably missed some mentions and probably gained a few they would have/might not have garnered otherwise; I can't tell. I had planned on making fun of it a bit by running a counter-proposal of "Send John Porcellino Five Bucks Day," the point being that making public gestures is fine but we could probably just support great cartoonists more directly, but I ended up not doing so because I didn't want to take attention away from Kirby. I may still send John five bucks, though. John's great.

* you can see some of the results of a slight, annual redirection of that day here.

* I get links to these images from superhero comic books every so often. It's not a kind of comic book I follow, even though I know, for instance, that the middle part of this image is from a "original x-men brought forward in time" plotlines that's part of Marvel's new line refurbishment. Mostly, though, I think they'd be pretty effective if I were 12 years old and wanted to know about forthcoming superhero comics adventures. I can't even comprehend what the Internet consumption habits of 12-year-old me would be like, but I have to think it'd include scoping out some funnybooks.

* Eric Nguyen draws the Hulk. Francesco Francavilla draws Captain America.

* Andy Liegl on Scalped #60. Kay Mcgriff on Ghostopolis. Some nameless folks at the LA Times on Fall 2012 graphic novels for middle-school aged kids. Henry Chamberlain on The Carter Family.

* the Sequential Artists Workshop has announced an educational program that combines remote teaching with an in-house week of instruction, designed to an individual person's needs. That sounds like fun.

* finally, Tom Neely looks at his career-to-date.
 
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