Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Ben Austen takes a look at the end of the Borders book chain for Businessweek. That's one of those stories that was almost too big to process at the time, so all looks back are going to be appreciated.

* go, look: Xavier Cugat meets Frankenstein (thx, Devlin Thompson).

* Peter Laird reports from the recent Jules Feiffer presentation at the Eric Carle Museum.

* Kuljit Mithra talks to Stuart Moore. Matt Preira talks to Joyce Brabner.

* Richard Sala presents a dropped sequence from The Hidden, and in doing so talk about self-editing and process generally.

* missed it: so supposedly there was one of those incidents where comics covers with swastikas on them weren't allowed into the Diamond catalog because the Diamond catalog needs to be published in Germany. I have to admit: I was more aware that you can't publish swastika imagery in Germany than I was that Diamond's catalog was published in other countries. I actually saw this blog post very early on, and I was tempted to write one of those long-winded responses that the banned swastika thing always seems to incite, but on second thought all of that stuff seemed pretty straight-forward and I didn't have anything to add. So there it sat.

* Richard Thompson presents one of the best-looking Cul De Sacs he's ever done.

* Tom Neely points us in the direction of Livon Jihanian's appropriation of Family Circus tropes into social/comics commentary from a while back.

* Andrea Queirolo on Mister Wonderful. Rob Clough on the comics of Emma T. Capps. Sean Witzke on V For Vendetta via term paper. Sean Gaffney on Tokyo Mew Mew Omnibus Vol. 1. Don MacPherson on Decision 2012: Barack Obama #1. John Kane on Our Fighting Forces #134. J. Caleb Mozzocco on a bunch of serial comic books. Johanna Draper Carlson on Archie: A Celebration Of America's Favorite Teenagers.

* after Karkas, Ben Boxer might be my favorite under-utilized Jack Kirby character.

* Ed Sizemore says farewell to reviewing manga.

* Michel Fiffe wrote in to recommend this Ty Templeton cartoon about Frank Miller and his recent statements on the Occupy movement. Kim Thompson wrote in to upbraid me for my dramatically poor reading of Frank Miller's 1980s political positions. Note to self: when writing paragraph on why it's difficult to characterize someone's view, try not to characterize someone's views.

* finally, Erika Moen reflects on her Portland Opera experience from several months back.
 
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