Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Eddie Campbell talks about Will Eisner's The Spirit: The New Adventures.

* the writer and publisher Dan Nadel posts a lovely note about Hal Foster and Prince Valiant. Greatly recommended. My dad used to tell a story about Hal Foster that makes me think he may have felt slightly under-appreciated near the end of his long and distinguished run.

* not comics: I never thought of it before, but I guess manga boxes would be pretty low on the priority list given their easy shelvability and all. My manga is wrapped in garbage bags and buried in the back yard.

* I haven't dug around yet to see if this is true, but ewwww.

* another free Eugene Zimmerman book is apparently available here.

* a Jeff Smith link-o-rama.

* mediabistro.com's GalleyCat blog profiles a site that I believe is designed to introduce people to webcomics with significant back catalogs called Archive Binge.

* finally, I missed a brief discussion on-line to which Sean T. Collins draws attention: Marvel Editor Tom Brevoort's statements regarding the success of white male Americans as lead characters on American mainstream comic books. What interests me isn't so much that white males are a safer bet -- Brevoort knows his stuff, plus it's a widely held piece of conventional wisdom that white males are the O-positive blood type of identification in pop entertainment -- but that American comic books feature such a tight loop that one kind of comic book can be viewed so strictly in terms of its performance against another type.
 
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