Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Hillary Brown talks to the great Tom Gauld. Jon-Erik Christianson talks to Kyle Latino. Alex Dueben talks to Box Brown.

* from Teresa Jusino here's the latest example of fans and mainstream industry close-watchers pushing back against a variant cover they feel inappropriately sexualizes a character that shouldn't be sexualized. It's hard for some of us to dig into this corrective mindset because mainstream comic books remain base and idiotic in a lot of ways and not just this one; it feels more like caring about the cut of McDonald's employee uniforms than it does a protest concerning art. That said, it does seem weird as hell to commission a cover like that one if you aren't fully on board with how the character is portrayed, and the character is portrayed as physically exaggerated in what I take to be a sexual way -- and I have cheesecake aphasia. This is a commercial exercise; a vocal pushback is a big part of a commercial exercise and pointing out what's being sold seems fair to me. I'd love to hear the editors' thinking here at the same time I'm also willing to forget about this 11 minutes from now. Update: reader Philip Eagle notes another factor in play.

* OTBP: The Emotionary.

* Nigel Mitchell walks us through a bunch of Alan Moore books, although not all of them.

* it's always helpful to read Paul Gravett on the comics-related books to come. Some days I feel something like that column should be all of the industry news publications' primary endeavor.

* I never understood why these companies can't line up their stories more effectively so that you don't have spoilers about ongoing narratives in new ones. Then again, maybe that's the idea.

* finally, congratulations to Green Brain on their store expansion.
 
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