Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* supposedly the Comics.com site went down over the weekend. Alan Gardner finds out what happened, although I'll have to take his word for it that the response he received actually means something.

* Charles Yoakum makes a good point here about Jack Kirby as a writer. Because his dialogue was so idiosyncratic, he was likely edited in unflattering way.

* for as much grief as editorial cartoonists receive, some of it deserved, it's difficult not to feel a great deal of sympathy for all members of that proud profession when you hear about people not getting a really easy, straight-forward joke like the one presented here.

* the cartoonist Jim Davis donated a cartoon for papers to use on International Literacy Day yesterday.

* the educator Timothy Callahan picks his favorite interview books, focusing on those focused on comics and cartoonists.

* I guess people still do this?

* David Turgeon's analysis of the mighty Poison River is translated by Derik A Badman.

* the writer and cartoonist Shaenon Garrity talks funny about The Comics Journal. The day after I gave notice at The Comics Journal, I was sitting in Gary Groth's office when Ken Smith called. Gary said, "The only editor of the Journal that ever liked you is here -- and he just quit!"

* finally, PictureBox is having a big sale. As always, sales aren't news: they're better than news.
 
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