Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I'm going to try and do a separate post on the top part of retailer and industry advocate Brian Hibbs' latest column, but it's also worth reading for the bottom part where he talks about the alchemy of pairing creators and licenses in a way that might depress if you have delicate artistic sensibilities but is indicative to how a retailer like Hibbs thinks in terms of moving these items into his customers' hands.

* Dustin Cabeal on Heck. Kimberly Griffiths on Hawkeye #13.

* Sketches from Guantanamo previewed in the NYROB.

* not comics: here's some contextual information on that controversy that popped up last week about a design-beholden item-creating business openly ripping off designs from independent artists.

* super-cute.

* not comics: the tone of this open letter from the magnificent movie rental store Scarecrow in Seattle, as well as a lot of its specific rhetoric, is likely familiar to anyone that's ever had a favorite comic book store or comics publisher get knocked up against the ropes for a while. I think Scarecrow has been like this for a few years now. At some point you begin to wonder after the ability of a certain way of providing access to an art form to keep a certain business model afloat.

* can't tell who wrote this, but it seems to be a reader's tribute to the comic book title called Fearless Defenders. Just about every comic book series is somebody's favorite, and every cancellation stings someone.

* Cory Woodroof talks to Guy Gilchrist. Dave Richards talks to Karl Kesel.

* not comics: I saw a pair of Internet pieces of content that might help people interested in extending one of the key, ranging discussions of the moment: problematic art, old and new. This AV Club article revisits the depressing misogyny found in many of the fantasy works written by 1980/1990s smart-teen favorite Piers Anthony. This Andrew Sullivan thread brings up a lot of examples of older works that do not perform very well to modern eyes and sensibilities.

* finally, it's fun when Kevin Huizenga draws anything.
 
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