Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* John Sherffius announced his retirement from cartooning in an e-mail to a group of Association Of American Editorial Cartoonist members. CR joins what is certainly a large group of folks in wishing him a happy one.

* missed it: Colleen Doran posted a complete, three-page story to her site: Three Black Hearts.

* the comic no kid would want.

* Alex Dueben talks to Alex de Campi and James Broxton. Cyriaque Lamar talks to Lee Bermejo. Jen Vaughn talks to JP Coovert. Sam Adams talks to Craig Thompson.

* Richard Thompson unearths a proto-proto-Cul De Sac.

* it's hard not be fond of the way that Dave Lasky draws scenes like this. Ditto Richard Sala and his bad candy nightmare.

* Michael Cavna picks his favorite Herman Cain/sexual harassment cartoons. That seems to me a not-exactly terrific bunch, although the Clay Bennett one I guess is pretty memorable. I'm not sure that doesn't reflect the story itself: I have no real idea how to process Cain's candidacy, let alone the dance of absurdities that is this particular story within that wider one. For example, and I'm sure the people that spend their time with their noses buried in day-to-day politics have pointed this out already, it's astonishing to see on-the-record facts portrayed as accusations just because they're unearthed in the course of a campaign. That would be like people accusing me of once having worked at Fantagraphics. How do you do a cartoon about something that's such a cartoon?

* being introduced to Wonder Woman must have been different for those born after the TV show.

* Jenna Brager on The Hidden. Sean Gaffney on Cross Game Vol. 5. Don MacPherson on Heaven All Day. Ed Sizemore on Princess Knight Vol. 1. Philip Shropshire on NYC 2123: Dayender. Grant Goggans on Lenny Zero And The Perps Of Mega-City One. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis. David P. Welsh on A Bride's Story Vol. 2. Greg McElhatton on The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode #2. A bunch of different folks on Uncanny X-Men #1. Chris Mautner on Pope Hats #2, Hark! A Vagrant and Mickey Mouse Vol. 2. Rob Clough on Habibi.

* not comics: well, this is awful. It is of course deeply awful in the act of it, but also pretty awful just in the way that specific article with that specific emphasis was generated out of that tragedy.

* I know it's a joke title, and I think the article suggests that the right question in an extended inquiry like that is "why are these specific things sexy to some people?" but mostly what I got out of the piece is trying not to think of ways -- ways that have nothing to do with the art examined -- why a broken spine just might be sexy. Too many Cronenberg movies, I guess.

* Daryl Cagle's post on Susie Cagle's arrest last week at Occupy Oakland now includes an embedded video of the cartoonist talking about her experience.

* Cyclops explains in his own words why he's the worst leader ever.

* Martin Wisse brings word of a new Dutch documentary about comics.

* Scott Edelman encounters Steve Canyon at the San Diego airport.

* finally, take a tour through that big Reprodukt anniversary exhibition. Works by Sturm, Trondheim, Doucet and many, many other comics luminaries.
 
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