Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the downloadable Bone for the iPhone is the Apple Pick of the Week. This sort of explains whey there wasn't a bigger deal made of the comic being added to their offerings. Good Jeff Smith month. He raised some money for the CBLDF through auctioning off his only 2008 store appearance. In addition, I thought RASL #3 was weird and unsettling and propulsive and showed off a different range of effects than Bone did -- just want you want from a cartoonist's follow-up to the lifetime project.

* don't believe political cartoonists who say they won't be able to find ways to make fun of Barack Obama if he wins next Tuesday's election. They always make this complaint, and they're always wrong. That said, the article does include some really quite dismal cartoons.

* this anti-Al Franken comics mailing ruffled feathers. I am still a proud owner of a copy of "Tip O'Neill's Tip Sheet," which featured one fetus saying to another of then-local congressman Phil Sharp, "Phil Sharp says we're not people." That's still right up there with "Stay Gold Pony Boy" as something the guys with whom I grew up say to each other on those rare occasions we're out late acting goofy.

* this post and its comments thread features the Hulk Vs. Superman of people I wouldn't want to tangle with on-line: Domingo Isabelinho and Matthias Wivel.

* I'd hate to hear what happened to the fans picking the wrong side of that Civil War mini-series.

* finally, this terrible story and opportunity to help is making the rounds through various outposts of the comics Internet. I can't vet it personally, so I'm urging you to read it on your own and come to your own conclusions, but I thought it worth providing that initial link.
 
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