Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Dan Nadel expresses his frustration with fellow writer-about-comics George Gene Gustines.

* Cameron Crump on Moon Knight #9. Sean Rogers on a variety of comics. Dana Jennings on 75 Years Of Marvel. Jeet Heer on The Secret History Of Wonder Woman.

* this is either cool or terrifying.

* Heidi MacDonald enthuses over the Direct Market of old. It's true that a lot of non-superhero comics did better in the 1980s than the same kinds of comics do now. If you talk to a lot of creators in that 45-55 age range, at least a few will tell you of sales they had on random projects in the mid- to late-1980s they would kill a (distant) family member for now. It was still superhero-dominant, though, and even the comics that did well that way tended to be in related genres as opposed to the wider range of expression one might find in literary or kids comics now. What happened was a system-disrupting black and white boom and bust followed by actions taken directly by superhero comics makers to gain as much direct market share as they could manage -- in some ways almost store to store fighting for rack space. It wasn't just the collapse that followed in the mid-1990s, it was the heave and toss that preceded it, too. But that system hummed for a few years for a few titles, for sure.

* hey, a new Charles Burns print.

* finally, Bill Everett draws Lucille Ball.
 
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