Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Richard Bruton on And Then Emily Was Gone #2 and I Don't Like My Hair Neat #2. Shawn Starr and Joey Aulisio discuss The Spotting Deer. Sean Gaffney on Senran Kagura: Skirting Shadows Vol. 1. Grant Goggans on The 47 Ronin. J. Caleb Mozzocco on a bunch of different comics. Gavin Jasper on Avengers #23.

* these massive articles by Ken Parille at TCJ are a treat; you should bookmark and return if you can't read it right now.

* the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com discusses the sales figures in their latest white paper. Spoiler alert: print makes a mini-comeback as digital sales slow down slightly from the crazy surges of the previous three years. Sounds about right to me.

* Fereshteh Forough talks to Leela Corman. Albert Ching talks to Geoff Johns.

* Mark Kardwell profiles Colin Smith's latest site devoted to reprinting material from UK comics 'zines. That's one of my favorite sites, and I agree with Kardwell that this kind of focused, near-obsessive documentation is a blessing and a treat. I worry about a lot of that fan material not making it out of the next quarter-century, so as much attention as we can pay to archiving it from all directions is an overall positive for our understanding of the art form.

* not comics: I wondered if there might be some slight Batkid backlash, as this post over at Robot 6 notes in a later paragraph.

* great title: "Why Does Ignatz Throw From Right To Left?"

* finally, here's a nice article about the comics holdings at the Library of Congress. Original Steve Ditko pages + issues of Papercutter = personally curated heaven.
 
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