Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the prominent blogger and cartoonist Mike Lynch notes a new insurance company available to freelancers working in New York with an eye on offering such services nationwide.

* I feel I haven't done as much as I should have on behalf of the mainstream comics artist Gene Colan, so let me start to redress that by slipping in this mention that his show at Cartoon Art Museum curated by the author Glen David Gold goes up this weekend. The reception isn't until December 4. I've never seen Colan's originals, and I have to imagine due to its general attractiveness that seeing that art up has to be a pretty fun experience.

* not comics: is it my imagination, or are we seeing a second run of comics-related podcasts springing up?

* here's a cute story -- well, cute in part because it didn't happen to us -- about the cartoonist Godfrey Amon "Gado" Mwampembwa trying to attend one of those seemingly endless cartooning for peace conferences and being thwarted because Kenyans were so overjoyed at Senator Barack Obama's election that they closed official offices the cartoonist needed to make his flight with the right documentation. Attempts to bring the cartoonist to the conference via electronic means failed.

* not necessarily comics: this article about super-villain hideouts made my head hurt in a good way.

* finally, I think the point of this article is to wonder out loud whether the covers on these Tintin parodies cross the line into fooling the reader that they're getting either official or officially approved books. The real point of this article should be how to pull off wearing a mutated, leopard-skin design tie/ascot crossover, because that is obviously the greater achievement.
 
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