Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a gentleman named Louis D'Esposito has been named co-president at Marvel Studios.

* I used to very much enjoy the B.C. paperbacks I found at garage sales and used bookstores; Mike Lynch found a few strips from the strip's heyday and just before that remind me this wasn't a crazy way to feel.

* not comics: introducing the League Of Kanye West Art Collaborators.

* hours of reading and contemplation and laughs ahead for those who read this rare, unearthed anti-Jack Kirby Dave Sim writing from the early 1970s. Anyone who was reading comics back then can probably confirm that the contempt for Jack Kirby's 1970s comics was pretty widespread, particularly among comics fans who valued a surface sophistication in their genre material in the Mighty McGregor Manner.

* this was an entertaining round-up review, and I'm going to at least consider adopting the reviewer's final step of burning the comics. Okay, probably not, but it still made me laugh.

* the Toonseum is moving into a new location.

* a columnist slams Nick Anderson for suggesting in a cartoon -- probably the one at right -- that the Fort Hood shootings could have been caused by mental illness. One imagines that the man either had mental illness issues or he did not, and that this will come out as we learn more about the tragic event.

* more from the Con Wars front lines. It's clear that the best thing to do if you're ever drafted into con wars is to shoot yourself in the foot and return home from the trenches as quickly as possible.

* Michael Cavna wonders why more comic strips don't recognize Veterans Day. A contributing factor could be that Veterans Day wasn't really on anyone's radar in that way until the last couple of years when it's made this mini-surge, a wave of interest that's even bigger this year coming right after the Fort Hood shootings. Cavna does ask the very good question as to why Beetle Bailey of all features doesn't at least do something with the holiday.

* via the Drawn and Quarterly blog comes a link to a series of videos featuring the appearance of RO Blechman and Bob Sikoryak at The Strand.

* finally, it's probably too late for this kind of thing, but I bet with unlimited, near-divine powers of editing and accumulation there could have been an awesome book of World War 2 soldiers' cartoons and sketches.
 
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