* I quite like this fancier version of the 2013 iteration of the Cartoonist Studio Prize. It seems like that would be a nice one to win.
* Martin Wisse reminds through appropriation that Captain America is essentially a left-wing patriotic icon. I don't think these character are really one thing or another once they are taken from their original creators, but I do think most of the better stories told with him by creators after Kirby and Simon explore that tension. I don't have a grasp on how to unpack what Kirby and Simon did in those terms with that character.
* Chris Eckert asks after the eating habits of superheroes, including 1970s Hulk's fascination with beans.
* not comics: Tom Gauld's work makes for great prints. There is a whole bunch of cartoonists that are particularly adept at making work that might go on the wall of an office -- it's a very specific skill.
* Sonia Harris writes about three memorable comic-book funerals. I always liked that one in one of the Locas stories where Maggie and Hopey show up and it's mostly empty and there's very little in the way of a break between what's on those characters' minds as they go about their day and the business right in front of them.
* finally, I think I ended on this team-contribution art blog from the writer Abhay Khosla's site, but I liked this post and I wanted to post about it to remind me to go back and look around.
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