Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Chris Mautner tells you where to start with reading Kevin Huizenga, one of the best cartoonists going.

* Mike Lynch caught that last week was the 75th anniversary of Sidney Smith's death, and wrote about it here.

* that smile on the young man is nice to see.

* I can't remember if I've already drawn attention to this or not, but here's an Inkstuds podcast about criticism featuring Jeet Heer, Ben Schwartz and Gary Groth. Those three guys are all bright and, more importantly, extremely articulate, so I'm sure it's good and look forward to whatever day at the guy it rolls to the front slot on the listening device.

* the writer Matt Seneca describes a certain sequence in The Outfit that contains within it a call back to a similar moment in The Hunter.

* here's a longish thinkpiece on the future of print comics that I'm not quite prepared to process.

* not comics: the writer Warren Ellis talks about the appeal of the older hero.

* the cartoonist Kyle Baker has published the entirety of his sports-persona-as-superhero illustration that saw print in the latest issue of ESPN's magazine. No shock that it's striking-looking.

* I'm beginning to look forward to these Frank Santoro mini-lectures on the construction of comics pages with a significant amount of glee.

* yesterday was Wonder Woman Day, where eBay auctions of drawings featuring the Maid Of Might benefit three domestic violence shelters. If the money went to tearing down domestic shelters instead of fortifying them, the day might still be worth it if only because Jaime Hernandez drew Wonder Tot.

* finally, here's an excerpt from Art Spiegelman's introduction to the Lynd Ward volumes from the Library Of America, surely one of the three or four prestige comics-related gift items out this Fall season. Spiegelman describes having met Ward in the early '70s, and talks a bit about the inherent gravitas of the woodcut line.
 
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