Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I can't recommend periodic check-ins or other ways of access the SPX Tumblr more highly this week, as plans for books and plans scotched for books dominate. It's about as required as these things get if you read smaller-press or alternative material. Like here's one that I picked up on the SPX effort for a Sam Bosma book that apparently isn't going to make it to the show that's as worth noting as just about anything likely to be there.

* Ryan K. Lindsay on Hawkeye #2. Alex Buchet on Spirou Et Fantasio A New York. Greg McElhatton on Thief Of Thieves #8. Christopher Allen on Invisibles Volume One: Interlude. J. Caleb Mozzocco on a bunch of comic-shop comics. Andy Oliver on Ellipsis #1 and A Game For Swallows.

* not comics: Sean Kleefeld is baffled by something he saw in a rest stop. Not as gross as it sounds.

* Mike Sterling notes that most of his memories of a movie come from the MAD parody of the movie rather than the movie, an affliction that hits a lot of 40-year-olds. I imagine it hits people of other ages, too, but MAD was super-popular right when a bunch of us were little kids and all the movies that people wanted to see (and were therefore parodied) were R-rated or otherwise adult in orientation. My friends' kids do this sometimes with Simpsons references filling in for actual memories of the thing itself, although the Simpsons stuff tends to get in and out as opposed to doing an entire film or TV show.

* Michael Cavna steps up with his choices of eye-catching DNC cartoons. I like the Luckovich and the Anderson; some of the others, yikes. KAL sent along his DNC video presentation.

* CCS thanks its latest round of advisors.

* I'm really glad I stopped going deep on superhero comics stories about 1980 or so. I like superhero comics just fine, but I get to pick and choose which ones those will be, and I'm grateful.

* speaking of which, it's weird that that run of Hercules comics is already receding in the rear-view mirror the way it is.

* Paul Gravett talks to Amruta Patil. This is a recent interview as opposed to the older one to which this site linked previously.

* here is Kate Dacey's brief history of modern manga, as written for an audience of 'tweens.

* finally, I missed Gary Tyrrell's piece on webcomics creators presence at the next run of comics shows, but it's good enough I can still recommend it despite the Baltimore portion being lost to time now.
 
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