Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* it's very rare to get to read something from Bill Kartalopoulos on comics, so it's nice to see a longer piece at Huffington Post of all places. I assume that's part of the publicity campaign for the Best American Comics series in the same way that big newspapers will take a guest editorial from the writer of a book on the subject of their expertise.
* not comics: Robert Boyd pulls apart one area of conflict pursued by a rights group interested in artists being paid fairly.
* not comics: I imagine most of these classic convention cosplay photos have been seen by anyone interested -- it's not even my thing, and I've probably run across half. As always, the flat-out nudity is what separates the scene as depicted a gallery like this one from what we see more modern photo sets. It used to be that older cosplay photos seemed to include more not-comics characters, but I don't think that's as true anymore.
* I've been enjoying the occasional Mike Sterling post about the ramp-up to opening his own store. I can't imagine how weird that would be, even for a longtime veteran of managing others' stores like Sterling.
* Sean Rogers on 
