Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the great cartoonist Eddie Campbell supplies a killer post on PS Magazine, with a side trip into cutaway imagery generally.

* it's only for comic book characters, so Giles' Grandma definitely isn't on the list, but random pieces of art from that character being violent always crack me up so I thought I'd run one next to a link to this mostly depressing in the usual ways Top Ten Women Comic Book Characters list. (via)

* how Craig Thompson spent his summer vacation.

* the writer and critic Graeme McMillan is working his way through the modern X-Men comics and makes a good point here about the early Chris Claremont/John Byrne comics -- they established the standard formula for that series really, really quickly. One thing that I think helped in addition to the move to John Byrne as the artist collaborator is they got to jettison the space stuff for a while and focus on the other standard narrative arcs: X-Men at home, X-Men on the run, X-Men considered dead, X-Men over-matched, X-Men dealing with their own. The space opera elements were the weakest parts of the Claremont/Cockrum run -- just seeing Eric the Red depresses me 30 years later -- and were better off put in the corner for a while.

* not comics: the cartoonist Richard Thompson sums up how a lot of folks feel about Twitter. Killer background art, though.

* this is interesting: an interview with Leo McGovern, the comic book collector that was one of the people whose story was told in Josh Neufeld's AD.

* not comics: the writer Chris Allen asks if a) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby would have appreciated a joke about "The Final Solution," and b) if the average Marvel Comics editor would even get the reference.

* finally, the cartoonist Evan Dorkin has received word that the Plastic Man substitute strip he and Stephen DeStefano worked on for Wednesday Comics will not be needed after all. That's an impressive reflection on Wednesday Comics, come to think of it.
 
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