Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Rob Tornoe has launched a print humor magazine with a stellar comics line-up.

* I've been running links to Paul Tobin's fun series on great comic book cover artists and will continue to do so. In the meantime, he put up an equally fun post of quality cover designers that didn't make his list, a post that includes this fun image from Gill Fox.

* Mike Rhode talks to the Luna Brothers. I like those guys, and I like that I work in proximity to an industry where there are people named "The Luna Brothers."

* not comics: there's a series of posts and tweets in the on-line comics world right now riffing on Kate Beaton's suggestion that making a romantic overture, no matter how clumsy or sweetly-intended, at a cartoonist as the words and actions that fill the space where other folks might simply praise the work is creepy, insulting and shouldn't happen. I don't really understand where the room is to argue with this point, as when someone tells you something is creepy and shouldn't happen and makes them uncomfortable the necessary response is some form of "I'm sorry" or nodding one's head rather than to debate the minutiae of related issues, but I guess some folks out there took varying levels of umbrage. It also feels dumb to me to spend a microsecond arguing that this kind of thing happens woman to man (or via same-sex permutations) at anywhere near the same rate it does man to woman.

* not comics: webcomics cartoonists flex their on-line muscle and push a specific prose anthology into a #1 on-line sales position.

* things you'll never unsee, chapter 851.

* finally, it's only in recent years that comics- and cartooning-related passings started regularly making the TV news: here's an area New York City piece on Leo Cullum. (thx, Ben Schwartz)
 
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