Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* more on the Swine Flu cases being tracked as having developed at this year's Penny Arcade Expo.

* a happy second birthday to a personal favorite, Richard Thompson's newspaper comic strip Cul-De-Sac. What a surprise pleasure it's been. I hope there are many more birthdays in its future.

* Harvey was right.

* the great Thierry Groensteen will be honored at the Poitiers library somehow related to but I think perhaps well in advance of their hosting one of the traveling Angouleme exhibits.

* if I'm reading it correctly, the folks at ActuaBD.com seem enamored of Thierry Tinlot's contribution to a Fluide Glacial group blog.

* I am a total sucker for tales from the older days of fandom, where it seemed like there was some extreme effort involved in finding out about certain items and connecting them together, so I read with great interest this entry on the passing of one-time 'zine maker Charles Stumpf. I also swooned over this photograph, for sure.

* Colleen Cover's commission for Kevin Church's ongoing J Jonah Jameson sketchbook army of JJJ's is awfully cute.

* I thought this was interesting post -- the last in a series of posts contrasting The Great Darkness Saga with Blackest Night -- about the way GDS used the fear displayed by its characters to reinforce how the authors wished the reader to view what was going on. People freaking out over stuff is scary. I'm not sure you could do this with a modern series because the audience is more of a hardcore readership with an encyclopedic knowledge of what's going on. That what I'm guessing were mostly younger readers of The Great Darkness Saga didn't really have the tools to piece together what was going on, while readers of Blackest Night have been shown just about everything and are equipped to fill in the blanks themselves, it seems. Then again, maybe not: I'm not reading those comics. (via)

* the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants just became that much more imposing.

* finally, Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist notes that Berke Breathed will make an appearance at the forthcoming Long Beach Comic Con in support of IDW's republication of Bloom County. I suspect Breathed doesn't know the depth of affection a certain generation of comics fans has for Bloom County.
 
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