Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Matthew Thurber's "Letter To A Young Cartoonist" contains several notions worth considering about the nature of on-line and social media use by comics-makers, even if you don't agree in any way with the thrust of the arguments. Although if you treat it as an argument to be defeated, I'm sure you'll be able to.

* Richard Burton on Star Cat Book One. Eric Margolis on She-Hulk.

* Heidi MacDonald takes note that there is something called the Goodreads Choice Awards, and that there's a comics category. I had two cartoonists tell me over the weekend that Goodreads is one of the few places they can routinely find negative reviews of their work, which strikes me as funny for some reason.

* I get that everyone in comics thinks they should be covered more, and has an idea of what that coverage should look like, but for curiosity's sake I did a quick search of articles that mentioned "Dave Sim" on this site and came up with a mere 28 in this calendar year. I'll try to do better.

* "Ragnarok" as a recurring plot device is funny because of the implied one-time nature of such an event -- even when you make it cyclical, the power of the word comes from its drastic, epoch-ending consequences.

* finally, Carla Hoffman's engages with what it's like to read event after overwhelming event in superhero comic books starts to feel like even for someone invested in those kinds of comics.
 
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