Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if you're dying to be at a big, mainstream-focused comics show this weekend and can't go, one of CR's readers says that Mike Sterling's journey through the lower intestine of the Previews catalog is sort of like going to such a show. If you're being mean about it.

* Gene Luen Yang discusses Fu Chang, International Detective.

* if you're dying to be in the middle of a comics experience that's everything a big, mainstream-focused comics event tends not to be, you can spend a few minutes immersed in the latest Vanessa Davis cartoon. That's always a few, good minutes.

* if you go to Drew Friedman's signing tonight in Brooklyn, you'll also get to meet Larry Storch.

* not comics: this article at The Atlantic discusses the course of three different magazines serving two different sets of community insiders with advertising concerns, as each limps forward in the digital era. I'm not sure how it relates to comics, or even if it does, but it seems like a fascinating subject with a few ideas splintering off of each paragraph.

* a viewing of God's Cartoonist sends Gil Roth around the office to see how many of his co-workers are familiar with the Jack Chick comics -- turns out not as many as he thought would be.

* the way the King Features strips are being run on-line makes a direct link either impossible or beyond my skill set, but if you want to go look it up the throwaway panel to Mutts on September 12 was a call back to this cover by Jack Kirby. The sad thing is I recognized it immediately just from the position of the guy in the panel.

* finally, I completely missed this last week: that college cartoon that set officials of Saginaw, Michigan complaining because of its unflattering depiction of that small city? It won an award.
 
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