Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* I don't like to link to clearly copyright material, but I don't think I'd ever seen this Joe Kubert tribute comic before.
* missed this Zainab Akhtar article about the extremely talented James Jean making art out the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a company in turn making toys from that art.
* I also missed that Marian Seldes died. She was one of the great American stage actors of the 20th Century and Gilbert Seldes' daughter. I may be the only one to even notice, though.
* nearly missed this one as well, but I had fun reading Lucy Knisley's lengthy response to a reader upset about an almost abstract portrayal of dirty-magazine material that found its way into one of her books.
* the writer Kurt Busiek engages with the issue of how to write "believable women" -- both the question itself and what may be in play that it gets asked. It's thoughtful and smart. I don't ever wonder that people ask that question in a critical sense. My hunch is that people have all sorts of discomfort writing people with whom they're unfamiliar, and that women comes up first because a lot of younger men are isolated from women and more narratives demand you have characters of more than one gender than of a certain social position or even ethnicity.
* Zainab Akhtar on 
