Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Robert Kirby on For Lovers Only. Michael Buntag on Seconds. Rob Bricken on Democracy.

* Sam Thielman talks to Kate Beaton.

* James Whitbrook walks through Hawkgirl's concept-history in summary fashion. It's interesting to see how convoluted and even tedioius the multiple "universe relaunches" and reboots and the like can make a pretty simple, exotic, fun concept. It's usually telling when a character works in other media and doesn't seem to work in comics that some element of comics' overarching fussiness is in play.

* the writer Ben McCool provides tips for entry into the comics industry as a writer.

* the Trouble With Comics writers pick powerful and affecting graphic novels. That's a fun list, mostly because I'm not sure I'd even consider half of the choices let alone place them on my own list. I don't have time to think through the question, but I do know two of the recent works that spring to mind as working on me that way are The Love Bunglers and Footnotes In Gaza. Two short stories that stopped my heart when I read them were "The Hannah Story" by Carol Tyler and "Minnie's 3rd Love" by the great Phoebe Gloeckner. I'm sure there are more.

* finally, there's a pretty good oral history article/video/pop-up Internet creation to be done in the year 2030 about how Marvel is right now managing their X-Men and Inhuman franchises in terms of their movie/TV deals and, I suspect, just a dash of narrative burnout in regards to the X-Men characters.
 
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