Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to all-around swell guy and fine young writer Kiel Phegley on his promotion to CBR's News Editor. When I have to close this site next year, we'll all know when to mark the beginning of the end.

* the longtime comics reviewer Don MacPherson writes about superhero comics being icky as opposed to having adult content. The example at left sounds like somebody's father who's a history professor making gross words at his kid's prom date.

* not comics: I'm not certain there's any good way to run this particular headline, but that sure ain't it.

* I got an e-mail from Van Jensen yesterday that says his alma mater, the Center For Great Plains Studies At UNL, will be accepting comics submissions. It will join the literary journal aligned with the University of Virginia in that regard.

* the writer Steven Grant says superheroes are dead. Basically.

* not comics: RIP Smith/Spielberg Old Boy. I know for most people this is a "good riddance" situation, but I will miss being able to make my friends laugh by picking up a hammer and going, "Aw, hell nah!"

* if you are a cartoonist and you like Barnacle Press and you wouldn't mind doing a tiny bit of work for free, they'd like you to read this.

* Mike Lynch analyzes Jamie Tanner's kickstarter-focused publishing plan and suggests an historical precedent.

* finally, the game designer and writer Monte Cook reports back in glowing terms about the long-time comics and gaming festival in Lucca. One of the US conventions needs to import the gaming side of that show's method of closing the festival: "Sunday night brings the convention to a close and with it an odd tradition. This tradition is rooted in the past, when a young gamer annoyed members of the staff to distraction and they ended up chasing him around and gave him a faux beating. Now, every year, this gamer (now grown up) hides at the end of the show and the staff seeks him out, chases him down, and pretends to beat him."
 
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