Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this is as thorough a local cartoonist profile article as I've ever seen. In this case, the featured city is Fort Wayne. So if you ever wondered if there were cartoonists in the northern Indiana city and original home of the Detroit Pistons beyond the late Grass Green, now's your chance.

* here's a nice discussion of Chester Brown's Zombie Romance ad and a link to its download.

* you can now affix an official Eisner Award seal to your nominated or winning comics object. I just sat here for five minutes staring at the screen trying to come up with a decent joke about a third seal for rejected books that had a picture of Will Eisner giving the finger, which is probably why I'll never qualify for the gold seal and may stop any year now qualifying for silvers.

* I really like Steve Bell, but I have to admit this isn't much of an article beyond the cartoon.

* people keep sending me this article by Chuck Rozakis, I guess the first in a series, on webcomics. There's too much here that's asserted that I think is vitally important for me to really like the piece, although I agree with roughly half of the assertions. I've always had a difficult time arguing these issues with anyone because deep down I believe the core value is control and it seems to me that everyone else sees the core value as profit -- I don't mean that in a snotty way, or even as a judgment of those values. It's more that everyone I talk to seems to be coming at it from a different point of view, both in what they choose to argue and how they argue it.

* it seems to me that Johanna Draper Carlson missed one in her list of ways to break into mainstream comics writing, and it's not "be really good." It seems to me that befriending a working writer and then writing a comic with them is a way a lot of writers are getting into that field.

* now that is some major-league shelf porn: Charles Schulz.

* finally, the cartoonist Scott Adams explains how he can write the same joke twice. One of the weird things about comic strips is they're often criticized for repeating jokes or having a joke that's roughly like another joke out there. As much as each and every one of us occasionally tells a funny story only to have someone say, "You told me that one before" I always thought we should be a bit more understanding concerning those that have to write 365 jokes a year for years on end.
 
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