Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I missed that Oni Press has named George Rohac to be the Director Of Business Development. I have some sort of specific affliction that keeps me from seeing Oni stuff generally, I think.

* why Matt Emery loves Dan Dare.

* Rob Clough on Sammy The Mouse. Chris Arrant on Burgermancer #1. Kate Dacey on Astro Boy.

* Steve Lieber draws Ed Piskor fan art. Roman Muradov draws a character not urinating off of a cliff. Matt Madden draws things back in 1999. Here's the cockpit to end all cockpits. Paul Hornschemeier draws a tiny Italian car.

* I don't really care for a lot of the superhero art previewed here, but I like the panel in the last image of wee, hard-charging Kingpin. Speaking of superhero art I like quite a bit, I've become a total fiend lately for black and white scans of Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four art from the first couple of dozen issues. The Kirby inked by Sinnott run from later that decade made for more glorious comics, but there's something about the designs in those early comics that's pretty. Like for some reason I totally like stringbean, slightly-ugly, touch of hillbilly Johnny Storm way more than any Johnny Storm that's come since.

* this Vice column doubles as an art gallery. I don't think I've ever seen that photo of Jack Kirby goofing off on the diving board, but I seem to be saying that a lot about Kirby photos recently so maybe I'm just undernourished in that area.

* here's a heavily-illustrated process post from Duncan Fegredo.

* that's a hell of a cover illustration.

* I don't want to endorse this kind of thing with an image and a separate post, and I'm happy to take down this link if there's an objection (it's well-traveled enough I'm thinking that maybe it's not a big deal for the copyright holders), but Gilbert Hernandez's "Frida" is still something to see almost 25 years later. One thing that I suspect is missing from the experience of reading comics in the post-Internet world is how frequently comics a quarter-century ago conveyed glimpses of other culture, other artists -- not just comics recommendation, which were vital, but music and visual art and movies. I guess they still sort of have that function, but we're talking about an era, the 1980s, where you ordered stuff blind from advertisements and tracked down casual mentions in interviews trying to find that good stuff. Anyway, there was no cult of Frida Kahlo of which I was aware at this time, so it made me go look at her stuff in my college library. I ended up writing a very long and very well-received paper, most of which was probably cribbed impressions from this comic.

* by the way, with all the people on hand at SPX, don't forget that it's The Two Towers in the LOSBROS30 trilogy of 2012 convention experiences. I hope they receive the attention they're due.

* finally, the Mario Gully story is a fascinating one, one that I think is informed by the fact that there's not a lot of money to be had in a lot of the different ways in which comics are done.
 
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