Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the site Shit Comics has a list of incredible cartoonists for 2013 up here.

* very few strips were more attractive than Big Ben Bolt.

* John Kane on a bunch of different comics. Sean Gaffney on Oh My Goddess! Vol. 45. Brian Nicholson on Sunny Vol. 2. J. Caleb Mozzocco on two comics by Tom Taylor and, although the links are broken as I write this, Bandette Vol. 1. Richard Bruton on Aama Vol. 1. Rob Clough continues with his pieces on CCS students and alumni; no tagged grouping as of yet, though. Chris Sims on Superman: A Celebration Of 75 Years -- I bet that one gets some traction.

* Jeffrey O. Gustafson on the lack of comics practitioners/critics.

* Kevin Nowlan draws the original Teen Titans.

* there's a nice article here about a cartoon done about President Kennedy that was pulled back as much as possible following his murder. There's actually been a ton of pretty good feature writing on the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, or at least it seems that way to me.

* Michael Cavna talks to Joe Sacco.

* Sean Kleefeld points out that there are not a lot of journalists -- even in the roughest sense of the word -- that cover webcomics. I can't think of a lot of writers that have covered it regularly and well: Gary Tyrrell, Eric Burns-White and some of Shaenon Garrity's writing come to mind; I'm sure I'm forgetting two or three folks. I suspect that a reason for this is the lower threshold for full participation in that particular expression of comics, and that another factor is the lack of a cultural hang-up concerning the relevance and direction of that expression. In other words, the fan press for print comics developed in a specific way as a reflection of the times both generally (post-Watergate new journalism expanding the idea of what that kind of writing could be) and specifically (an actual industry and an idea that the medium should transform). Then again, it could just be there's no money in it.

* people keep sending me this post from Bully of comic-book appearances by Winona Ryder, meaning comic-book versions of movies in which the actress appeared. And yes, I'm guessing all of the people sending it to me are near my age.

* finally, Brian Nicholson writes about evolving tastes as a way to engage the utility of comics criticism.
 
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