September 13, 2010
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* some odd chain e-mail purporting to be about semi-censored Australian cartoonists
turns out to be an even odder fake chain e-mail that uses not-censored-at-all North American cartoonists.
* Jason T. Miles
really digs into Seven Miles A Second. I think it's interesting how works like that have a second life with readers that discover them a while later, or for whom they really work in weird and astonishing ways.
* Ben Morse
lists a bunch of characters that should work but don't right now at the current mainstream comics companies. The problem isn't lack of creators willing to pull these characters apart to find something that works, it's that the industry has shifted to a point where this kind of effort has moved from barely but consistantly rewarding in a publishing sense (a shot in the arm to a company's monthly sales profile across a line) to long-shot of being potentially rewarding but likely not at all (a concept or take that can be moved into one of the five or six books with which these companies are primarily concerned; a movie-friendly refashioning).
* if you want to know when everything went to shit,
Marc Arsenault has a 10-day period he'd like to suggest.
* one of my favorite subjects:
the circus comics of Josh Simmons.
*
let me assure everyone that we're all equally not cool.
* not comics:
goodbye, you stupid, annoying show.
* if you are a nice person and an old-time mainstream comics fan, you will likely take seriously this request
to perhaps send Joe Sinnott a card or letter.
* finally, I don't know that I've said so, but I like
this feature that Bully does where he compares original covers with re-done covers for a future collection or a reprint series, something that's interested me since I looked at a few of the weird ones Gil Kane did for
X-Men during its hiatus period. I can't imagine a better way to track some of the artistic and cultural quirks that settle into the day-to-day view of those companies at different times in their history.
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