Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* John Freeman profiles Weirdo via a Knockabout collection. What a great, great comics magazine that was.

* Zack Smith talks to Paul Pope. Will Scott talks to Olivier TaDuc. Tim O'Shea talks to Steve Orlando. JK Parkin talks to Stan Sakai.

* Gerry Alanguilan writes about what not getting stuff for free meant to him as a young reader. I think that does have a significant impact on how material is consumed, although I don't want to make sweeping claims for a specific experience for any one person. I know that people talk about getting stuff from the library and how that has an impact on how people engage with a medium, but I think there's a cost in how we get stuff from the library, a burden that readers take on (going there, registering, negotiating that system) that brings with it a psychological trigger that's closer to buying than the modern phenomenon of getting things for free on-line.

* not comics: Le Petit Nicolas in Yiddish.

* Joe Gordon on the new Marc-Antoine Mathieu. Frank Santoro on new small-press comics. Jonah Lang on Thunderbolts #14. Ricky Miller on Bloodshot #0. Andy Oliver on The End Of The Fucking World. Tom Bondurant on Trinity War. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Batman Incorporated Special #1.

* Paul Allor gives back.

* Corey Blake profiles the Eisner Awards.

* not comics: I haven't read this piece yet, but there are a couple of ideas in the subject matter that I imagine apply to comics. How much of the curriculum at the schools that teach comics needs to engage with on-line opportunities? How much of a responsibility in general do schools like that have to prepare their students for changing financial realities in the commercial realm attached to their art form?

* Alan Gardner catches Richard Schickel reviewing the Herblock documentary.

* the artist Frank Cho talks about the desire to do creator-driven projects. I'm sure there is an element of creative frustration involved in a situation like Cho's, although it's worth pointing out that the model career fro comics-makers right now includes creator-driven projects.

* folks love naughty comics in commercially accessible styles.

* finally, it's fun to look at these Mandrake scans, even though some of them are pretty rough in terms of image quality.
 
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