Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's the call for papers from ICAF. I don't know if that's new or if someone just re-posted it, but two of you e-mailed me that link. That group is having their next event in May in Portland. They are closer to the their 20th anniversary than they are to their 10th. We'll all be dead soon, you know.

* Chris Mautner reviews the Alexander Street Press digital archives -- they're the one providing libraries with The Comics Journal. Paul Di Filippo on Underwater Welder. Buzz Dixon on Archie #636. Philip Shropshire on Prophet #27. Christopher Allen on Invisibles Vol. 1 #1. Grant Goggans on White Devil #1. Todd Klein on Kirby Genesis #5-6, Aquaman #10, Dark Horse Presents #10 and The Flash #10.

* not comics: hey, look at the Doug Wright-themed playground.

* who needs editors?

* nice isolated image from the late Gene Colan here. Not sure what the hell is going on in this illustration, but I'm always fond of Indiana Jones mixing it up with superhero types.

* Johanna Draper Carlson is not fond of the idea that someone has a kickstarter campaign to send them to a comics convention where it's likely they won't get a lot of attention and thus even meet the described goals of the kickstarter campaign.

* it's a good thing kids everywhere no longer take moral instruction from comic books, or you couldn't turn your back on a one of them.

* Rob Clough profiles Jaime Hernandez. Will Scott talks to Gabriella Giandelli.

* at the bottom of this catch-all post is a drink recipe called "Ghost Of Hoppers." The problem with that one is you have to mix it while a dog runs towards you on its hind legs.

* Graeme McMillan pulls out a Greg Rucka statement on a well-publicized DC Comics plot point that basically says, "Well it is New 52." I didn't know anyone was actually objecting to the story point as much as the ridiculous spectacle of this being something a company publicizes like it's an actual thing, and that DC would do this when they actually had admirable content to promote, but I guess it makes perfect sense that people would complain about the plot-point aspect, too. It's actually sort of touching in a way that anyone not a kid would have any attachment to those poor, old characters that way. Anyway, I guess if you treat readers like co-conspirators you probably shouldn't be surprised when they want input.

* the writer Charles Hatfield's brother Scott Hatfield writes about comics: 1, 2.

* finally, Superman and Batman discuss politics.
 
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