Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I revisited this list of exhibitors for CAB 2015 next weekend due to a conversation I was having with someone, and it struck me just how top-to-bottom strong it is. There are have been some great guest and exhibitor lists this year and this may be the best one yet.

* Rob Clough on Purgatory Pub.

* Mike Lynch is today's comics-related blog post author throwing his own kidney punches in the direction of working for free. As always: it's a terrible standard model, exposure arguments are beside the point in today's Internet, and anyone asking you for charity should at least have the paperwork filed to be a non-profit. I hate a system that's so broken and thus lists so far in the other direction that I sound like Ayn Rand whenever I write about it.

* I don't know that I'm familiar with Alex Nino drawing Conan, but I like what I see here.

* don't know that I've ever seen this Jack Kirby drawing, either.

* someone directed me to this short essay as a sort-of response to the hard-man advice recently offered by Noah Van Sciver. They're not really competitive with one another, and so both are worth reading and considering. I've frequently thought about consuming devotion to work in terms of my own life. I'm just not capable of it. I know in sports there's an ethos of working 20-hour days but it seems there are plenty of examples of greatness in that realm where someone leads at least a personally well-rounded life. Bud Grant going hunting in the afternoon during the Fall surely didn't cost him any of those Super Bowls, although I'm certain someone out there thinks so. Me, I'm not sure in the course of a life well-lived how many afternoons in the Minnesota wilderness I'd trade for a professional achievement, even the highest one.

* finally, I love the look of classic 2000AD covers, so this is a treat.
 
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