Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* good news from Australia: Bill Leak is out of his coma and able to react and, although this is slightly less important given the stakes, use his drawing hand. No one is ever quickly out of the woods on a severe head industry requiring multiple surgeries, but this is great to hear. Here's a wish for a speedy recovery that includes a great story about how he dealt with an angry letter.

* however, no one on planet earth would be expected to deal in sane fashion with this kind of fan letter. Wow.

* superhero morality shorthand, from Eddie Campbell.

* I should have known that if any cartoonist had ever drawn the late comedian, blaxploitation movie star and toaster supreme Rudy Ray Moore, it would have been Rick Altergott. Well, Rick Altergott or JR Williams.

* every author should do this at least once in their life.

* not comics: there seems to be a slight degree of astonishment or pinch-me wonderment underlying all of these articles springing out of something called the Scream Awards that comic book movies are really big. Why wouldn't they be? The effects are for the most part able to handle them. Superhero comic book plotlines have been an ingrained part of mainstream Hollywood since Lethal Weapon. Most of the hardcore comics fans from the first generation of hardcore comics fans are in places of creative and business ascendancy. Movies have been trending towards fantasy enterprises for a while now, and suddenly there's this huge repository of potential concepts. Many of them have had test runs as concepts with hardcore audience members whose tastes have been known to drive the mainstream cultural bus for a while now. They're persona-focused, which suits the actor-as-star ethos. It makes perfect sense to me just as science fiction made sense 1977-1982 and westerns made perfect sense 50 years ago.

* man, has this been the perfect feature story for the new comics era or what?

* this story about Marcus Hamilton's career is inspirational, although you may not share his faith. That is certainly one heck of a comeback, and it's sort of scary that someone as talented as Hamilton was once out of comics and art completely.

* finally, I give up: what happens to a dead Zuda project? For that matter, how many fit into a telephone booth?
 
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