Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Craig Fischer promotes a forthcoming event about Jack Kirby and his heirs' various legal issues and makes several points about the difference between legal and moral obligation.

* this panel is from a beautiful page up for a now-complete auction to benefit the family of Dylan Williams, but there are more such auctions that will pop up here.

* Tom Kaczynski remembers MOME.

* Bart Croonenborghs on Little Book Of Beatles, Midgard Vol. 1 and The Sponge Salesman. Cory Doctorow on Agatha H And The Airship City. Robyn Creswell on Habibi.

* this is a very nice coda to the story of the man whose Superman collection had been stolen for a while.

* not comics: I knew there were rumors that the Affleck/Clooney/Damon trio was going to do Argo, but I didn't know the movie was coming out next year or that they've cast a Jack Kirby.

* the New York Times' City Room blog profiles Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier in a way that should make every person want to part of a cartooning couple, no matter if they're a cartoonist or not.

* Colin Smith suggests that DC has gone 180 degrees on its portrayal of the John Stewart Green Lantern character. Sometimes I think there should be some version of Bill Simmons' "Veep of Common Sense" at those companies for major and unnecessary changes like this, but they'd probably only ever hire really freaky continuity obsessives.

* not comics: nothing good will come of covering this poor fellow, I bet. I will say it's sort of interesting to me that I lived in Seattle for about a decade and I can't recall ever thinking that crime was so bad that we needed people fighting it in costumes, or even a bunch of angry, chubby teenagers in red berets or whatever. I knew people that were mugged, of course, or suffered from other types of crime, and while that was always awful it never seemed like so many that a drastic change in the form of a counteracting force might be desirable. In contrast, my memory of cities like Indianapolis, Denver and Chicago in the late 1970s did sort of match that kind of thinking. I wonder how much of the modern superhero formula is still rooted in a late-1970s/early-1980s conception of society's dangers without our realizing it?

* Tom Hart talks about spending the afternoon with Derek Ballard.

* Jen Vaughn chimes in with a full and detailed report on ICAF. There haven't been a lot of reports on ICAF since they separated from SPX, really.

* finally, I imagine that a page potentially one day full of sketchbook imagery from Alexis Frederick-Frost is one worth bookmarking.
 
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