Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Rob Clough on Margo Maloo 2: The Monster Mall.

* I don't want to give a lot of time to Mark Knight's dumb and offensive cartoon of Serena Williams, although it's interesting to watch all the deflective strategies at work. You can extend people out to make additional arguments and then claim you're holding your own when they stalemate according to a generous measure of those things. But this isn't one of those arguments, or shouldn't be. You just don't draw people that way any longer. If you do so anyway, you do so knowing exactly what you're doing. The thought that there's a serious inquiry into the issues surrounding the end of the US Open is kind of silly, given that Williams' opponent is depicted as being of a different race and wholly different look here than in reality. No, this is a nasty broadside with a nastier subtext. If you make powerful pictures, you're going to be judged on the effect those images have.

* no one 30 years on either side of him has had, is having or will have a stranger career in proximity to comics than David Choe, but this one defined largely by poking people with the Muhammed stick until they threaten to kill you comes close.

* finally: this looks like a particularly good panel.
 
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