Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I kind of blew past a story last week about a student cartoonist being fired for a joke about a father telling his son about his violent end if he ever came out to him as gay. The Beat picks up on it, and I probably should have spent some time with it, too. Humor's a bitch. I guess you could see the cartoon in question as obsidian-dark commentary lampooning a bigoted dad's excesses, but it's hard to get away with the ugly part of the humor no matter how you want to present that one. I guess I would go along with the "the cartoonist has the right to say that/the newspaper has a right to fire him" line of thinking. I'm not sure how it works that if if you think this is a firing offense the editors don't go, too. There are no really good answers here, though, only swift, decisive ones.

* Rob Clough on Ralph Azham Vol. 1. Richard Pachter on various comics. Jenna Sten on The Infinite Wait.

* this pulled quote is very interesting. I get the sentiment, and the branding of "nerd" is indeed one of the most horrible and depressing things to ooze from pop culture in the last 20 years. I'm the original critic of the modern comics community's Team Comics excesses, but I don't think that means an arts community isn't valuable or even necessary in a lot of ways. Or at least useful. I hope to write about this at some point, but I think the failures come less from the idea of an arts community as applied to comics, but what that means, particularly when it tries to encompass the omelet-style folding-in of commercial goals.

* I'm not saying anything that isn't obvious, but wouldn't it be cool if Kate Beaton become linked to history and the study of history in a wider sense the way that, say, the PvP guys are linked to gaming culture? And by cool, I mean cool for those of us that love history. That probably wouldn't be cool for Kate at all.

* Matt Maxwell tweeted over a link to this collection of Vietnam-era helicopter nose art, a gallery that includes a few comics characters.

* I admire the decision explained here to no longer accept comp. copies for the reason you're unable to put them to effective use. The only way comics ever stops being soaked in exploitation is a million such decisions, starting with your own circle of influence.

* finally, Drew Friedman shares his personal collection of MAD-artist inscriptions.
 
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