Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Paul Tumey talks to Louise Amandes and Ron Austin. Someone whose name isn't provided so that I can tell talks to Lee Salem.

* here's a list of terrible things Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's Cyclops character has done. I like how some of them are just oddball things that good guys in comics did for a while when superhero comics got weird and decadent.

* I found this Mark Millar essay about waking up to the latest trend in hopeful, cooperation-focused art and making it a personal awakening he has to share just as a book comes out that plays on these factors to be a really fascinating snapshot of how one of our most influential creators thinks. One thing I find perpetually intriguing about Millar is that he's applied the 1960s Marvel idea of making possible multiple readings of pop material to his own biography. It's very much worked for him, and should continue to do so.

* James Whitbrook on Alias, the comic from which the forthcoming Netflix series Jessica Jones is derived. I liked those comics, although I don't necessarily agree with Whitbrook's take in the title and throughout the article.

* many of them are true!

* finally, this is a really interesting back and forth on Twitter. I like how friendly it becomes. I don't begrudge the 50/50 split between strip cartoonists and syndicates, particularly for anything that luanched before 1990.
 
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