Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the prominent blogger and reviewer Matthew Brady has a massive write-up of the Dean Haspiel and Tim Hall appearance in Chicago over the weekend in support of the documentary about their Act-I-Vate artists collective.

* the great cartoonist Jack Kirby and the feel of a sturdy handgun were two of my five favorite things when I was 15 years old, so a pin-up combining the two would have probably gone up on my bedroom wall. It still might.

* Tom Richmond's report on the Stanley Awards in Australia -- where love for cartooning is most uniformly expressed through a reverence for in-the-trenches editorial cartooning -- contains video of Pat Oliphant drawing. (via)

* seeing as Comics Comics already has the best line-up of actual, real-life bloggers of any group blog going, it's really unfair of them to reach back in time and make historical figures of artistic importance into bloggers there, too.

* speaking of great bloggers and greater cartoonist, Eddie Campbell is both of those things. He's been doing a lot of interviews lately, and three CR readers suggest this one.

* we should all have room on our web sites for posts like this one.

* the great Paul Gravett does Euro-Comics 101 with an eye towards 2010 English-language translation projects. I'm going to read this article at least two more times, and enjoy it just as much as I did the first time.

* finally, the comics charity Hero Initiative is looking for Ed Hannigan art for a forthcoming book project, I would guess without knowing for sure on Hannigan's behalf. Hannigan was probably the mainstream comic book cover artist of the 1980s in terms of his ubiquity and the widespread use of his approach above and beyond when he himself was the one being employed.
 
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