Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Ty Templeton would like you to know that talent is bullshit.

* the comics agitator Frank Santoro shares a hilarious anecdote from a John Holmstrom interview in a forthcoming issue of 'zine supreme Cometbus as to how SVA put a pair of the all-time great cartoonists on their payroll.

* the critic and historian Charles Hatfield has penned a somewhat lengthy appreciation of JH Williams III here.

* not comics: it looks like they're going to hold off on making another Superman film until the legal hubbub surrounding the character comes to a conclusion. I figure this is good news; it'd be a weird time to make a Superman movie right now. I kind of feel bad for that Brandon Routh guy, though.

* the blogger and inker Charles Yoakum asks why people care so much about licensed properties.

* not comics: in important licensed t-shirt news, Paul Karasik is out of t-shirts related to Stardust and is quickly running out of his Fantomah t-shirts, which remain on sale. Speaking of holiday sales, Craig Yoe is having a Christmas-related promotion all his own.

* Fantagraphics is having a one-day sale today.

* I enjoyed reading Johanna Draper Carlson kick an entitled comics reviewer up and down the theatre aisles.

* finally, I didn't notice this but one of the authors named did: the New York Times had a graphic novel section in their recent Holiday Gift Guide. The titles they cite are The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Fables, Peter & Max: A Fables Novel, Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume One: 1980-1982, 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, Act-I-Vate Primer, The Absolute Death, The Complete Essex County, Criminal, Scott Pilgrim and The Walking Dead.
 
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