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October 26, 2011


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Frank Santoro would like you to know that applications for his comics correspondence course are due by this Friday, and that class begins next week.

image* Dave Lapp provides a sneak peak at his contribution to Toronto Draws Tintin.

* not comics: these look lovely.

* missed it: Marvel cancels two of its series.

* not comics: this article at the NY Times from a few days back is more about the writer's identification with 'zines than it is about some resurgence in 'zine-making, but I enjoyed some of the ideas floated in terms of how 'zines fit into the post-Internet expressive landscape.

* KC Carlson talks about the way he stored his comics before they had ways to store comics. I remember seeing a Don Rosa article in a Louisville paper in his TCJ file once, where from the photo you could tell he had bookshelves. I'm personally a big fan of wicker. (via Chris Pitzer, maybe?)

* not comics: congratulations to Ed Brubaker -- and I assume Sean Phillips -- on a movie deal for Coward.

* Jeff Jensen on a number of comics including Daybreak. Kevin Huizenga briefly on Edison Steelhead and Inside The Slow Spiral. Joseph Thompson on Troop 142. Jeremy Nisen on Troop 142. Sean Gaffney on Higurashi: When They Cry Vol. 15. Grant Goggans on The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Avengers Vol. 1.

* a comics and pedagogy roundtable.

* Sean T. Collins talks to JM DeMatteis; JM DeMatteis talks to Sean T. Collins. Cyriaque Lamar talks to Jimmy Palmiotti. Rob Tornoe talks to Jack Newcombe. George Tramountanas talks to Mike Carey. Albert Ching talks to Matt Fraction and Tom Brevoort.

* "young men are safe investments."

* here's a blog post about people going back and forth on Craig Thompson's Habibi.

* finally, if you haven't read this profile of Roger Brand, you need to read it. If you read it once a few days back, you need to visit the comments again.
 
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