Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* our deepest condolences to Martin Wisse.

* Laura Hudson at Comics Alliance talks to Susie Cagle about her arrest at Occupy Oakland and her coverage of that event generally.

* Katie Moody writes up the recent visit to the Center For Cartoon Studies by Mark Schultz.

* I very much like that Magnolia Porter is drawing 50 Achewood characters. Those are very potent characters.

* I have to admit, things increasingly sound sort of crappy at Marvel right now. I'm sure they're not quite as crappy as they're going to seem when you're sitting on the outside and all you seem to see are articles about how they're cutting back in all sorts of weird places right smack in the middle of an era when the work on the publishing line has yielded hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing and movie profits, but I imagine that with firings and budget mandates and the trimming of royalties via the expansion of an exemption and what seems likely to be the trimming of the standard book page count and the success across town, things aren't optimal at the House Of Ideas. In the article through that last link, Graeme McMillan makes a very funny point about Marvel making an exemption based in part on promotional copies when Marvel really doesn't do promotional copies. They have a lot of smart, talented people there, though, and they'll keep working.

* we are almost exactly at the point in time when fashion statements made in various comic books regarding leather jackets are going to look their absolute dumbest -- the same way that people in high school yearbooks a certain number of years back always look their ugliest before settling back down into normal parameters.

* not comics: yuck. It's remarkable how unpleasant that entire saga has been. I never saw it as wacky or funny as much as some sort of sprawling embodiment of everything that can go wrong with high-profile creators attempting to make art out of commercial properties. I can imagine a hell working on a road company of an effort like that.

* Jeff Newelt profiles Stan Lee. George Tramountanas talks to Peter David. Sean Collins profiles L'Association. The War Rocket Ajax crew talks to Matt Fraction. Crystal Hodgkins and Brigid Alverson talk to Hiro Mashima. Chris Marshall talks to Richard Graham.

* Slate covers the new Charlie Hebdo cover; I just hope I don't wake up to news of another bombing. Also, that article suggests that police are in pursuit of two suspects, something I hadn't read until now. Fabrice Stroun makes the important distinction between the right to free speech and the right to blasphemy, and suggests which one is in operation here.

* not comics: what Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie would have been like.

* Sean T. Collins talks about spoilers. I'm not sure I've ever figured out why spoilers are a big deal to people. I learned as a kid that if I didn't want to know what happened in the movie, I shouldn't read the reviews in the copy of the New Yorker sitting on the living room coffee table, and my basic attitude hasn't really changed since then. That's not what Collins is getting at, though -- he's digging after some of the more peculiar permutations of that element of fan culture.

* over at the First Second blog, tips on submitting work at shows. I think if you get through all those numbered points, they should just go ahead and publish you. I'm kidding.

* Marc Arsenault is excited about the Jason Shiga Meanwhile app.

* Graeme McMillan on Ganges #4. David P. Welsh on The Drops Of God Vol. 1. (Speaking of Mr. Welsh, he's certainly excited about Princess Knight.) Kate Dacey on GeGeGe no Kitaro. Rob Clough on some more CCS-related mini-comics. Sean Gaffney on Cage Of Eden Vol. 2. Don MacPherson on Cold War #1. Grant Goggans on Persepolis. KC Carlson on The Batcave Companion. Henry Covert on E-Man: Curse Of The Idol. Richard Bruton on Daybreak and Paper Science #6.

* Blake Bell has a process post up about his forthcoming secret history of Marvel Comics book.

* you know, reading that linked-to review of an E-Man book got me to think about encountering that comic book when I was a kid. I just realized that reading those made me feel like a later generation of kids must have felt reading Image Comics. That seems a pretty rudimentary connection to make at this late date, but there you go. There's something about looking at something crude and off-model and energetic that's very exciting and must have been a portion of the thrills felt at various junctions in comics history, some moments more potently than at others.

* finally, Greg Evans = Nostradamus. I think that makes Gunther the third Napoleon.
 
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