Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* this Jed Perl piece on the Art Spiegelman retrospective will likely get some traction: it's negative. One thing that's pretty dependable about Spiegelman is that he tends to attract criticism that hand-waves rather than engages with the work, and that criticizes his public role and place in the arts as invalid because of the summary dismissal. It always seems more about position and jockeying than anything from which I learn, and this seem to be a boilerplate effort in that respect. Look for some fellow critics to laud the strategy and general take of the piece rather than any insight or group of same.
* I think I tweeted this but didn't post the link to the blog: a Wimbledon Green type story, in that it involves the unearthing of an extensive collection.
* Christopher Butcher is one of the positive faces for Toronto, which I suppose is some sort of response to Mayor McCracky up there. Still, Christopher Butcher is a positive force for comics more generally and it's nice to see there's civic appreciation of him as well.
* Ken H on 
