Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has really stepped up the amount and quality of content they've been placing on their blog; here's a nice piece on a local permutation to the 1950's nation-wide fascination with banning comics content.
* I can't imagine anything more fun than to read a post from Richard Thompson talking about how he drew cartoons in the middle of his brain surgery. He includes both of the cartoons he attempted, including one he tried to make while they shot electricity through his cranium, and a great picture of what he looked like post-surgery. I like that man, and I hope that the surgery accomplishes everything hoped for it. I'm appreciative that he's fighting so hard for his health.
* Bob Temuka writes about George Lucas and soon moves into a discussion of nerd culture and comics more specifically. I agree with him that the proportion of how we argue with comics is often derived from a warped perspective of how important the not-real is. But I'm not sure that I don't see the not-real as more generally important than Temuka might. Sometimes a story can mean everything in the world. There's also a concern that some people dismiss a nerd-level investment in certain kinds of art but then also extend that to disdain for the art-makers, which I find distressing. That all sounds like I have greater objections to the post than I do.
* Michael Dooley talks to 
