Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Sam Henderson recalls the Ted Rall/Danny Hellman dust-up of years gone by.

* the prolific comics artist and illustrator Sean Phillips posts images of a few of the paintings he'll be exhibiting during his community's art walk. I hope there's one of Larry Manetti.

* this seems like a cute site of comics-related pictures, although I'm never a huge fan of labeling your scan of other people's work -- if you're able to scan and post the image, someone else should be able to re-scan and re-post.

* I deeply hated these characters as a small child.

* this P. Craig Russell page of art is the usual fun-to-look-at item, but the "comics is weird" description of how the page came into being is the keeper here.

* I totally missed that R. Sikoryak has joined the faculty at The Center For Cartoon Studies.

* Noel Murray writes about newspaper comics, with a nice graph on Cul-De-Sac. I'm not sure I agree with how Murray's set up his history, but he's playing in such broad strokes I'm not sure I could write an article of similar length and cover as much ground. I think my strongest disagreement in terms of how he set that up may come with his deciding not to touch on that whole Beetle Bailey school of high-concept gag strips at any length -- unless I missed it -- as I think that was clearly the dominant strain of strip-making in the second half of the 20th Century -- one reason Kelly, Schulz and Trudeau stood out when they made their debuts, and Watterson, Larson and Breathed popped on the page later on.

* speaking of Cul-De-Sac, Petey Otterloop continues his run on the dailies, and reveals himself to be quite the formally inventive cartoonist.

* Daryl Cagle spotlights a round of Labor Day-related cartoons.

* longtime retailer Mike Sterling appraises DC's New 52 launch from behind the counter of last week's inaugural efforts.

* Paul Gravett reviews a mess of comics, including a new one from Bastien Vives. Win Wiaceck examines The Comics Journal #301. Colin Panetta unpacks the good and the bad in Dark Horse Presents #3.

* finally, I believe this is that famous photo where seven seconds later Adrian Tomine beat the photographer to the ground with his bare hands. Okay, that didn't really happen, but that look on Tomine's face is pretty scary.
 
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