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October 19, 2015


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

image* Vinnee Tong talks to Gene Luen Yang. Francoise Mouly and Mina Kaneko talk to Bill Griffith. Alex Dueben talks to Maggie Thrash.

* not comics: this looks amazing now that I'm in Ohio and facing an Ohio winter.

* this reads more like a commercial for a TV show than an in-depth publishing analysis, but I guess it's interesting to know that gender issues in mainstream adventure comics and their related-media cousins as enough of a general item of interest that this kind of story gets commissioned. It takes a while for an idea to gain momentum like that, and every bit of attention is good, I think.

* when scholars disagree.

* 1776 is a very odd movie and it sounds like 1776 was a very odd comic book.

* I can't tell if this this Chris Ware cartoon is from four days ago or 18 months ago, but hey, Chris Ware.

* finally, Marie Severin is the best.
 
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