Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer Sean T. Collins presents a way of understanding the recent financial crisis a significant percentage of us will understand, although we probably wish we couldn't.

* not comics: I'm not sure why I remember this, but the late Paul Newman was once the next-door neighbor of the late comic book artist Gil Kane; the Kanes named their son, Scott, after Newman's son. From Kane's 1996 Comics Journal interview with Gary Groth: "We used to call him Brando because he was blonde-haired and looked just like Marlon Brando. The turned-up upper lip. At that time we found out he was in Picnic [on Broadway]. He was the understudy. He finally left the community when he went to make a movie called The Silver Chalice. He moved from where we were to a better community near us called Fresh Meadows." It is widely believed that Kane's version of Hal Jordan, Green Lantern's secret identity, was physically based on a young Newman, although I have no idea how true that is or who has claimed it and I'm not certain it's worth tracking down.
 
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