Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I've been unable to find out little more about the late John Garcia than the mysterious picture painted by a vigorous google search -- I was able to add commentary from two comics industry folk that worked with the artist: Larry Young and James Vance. If anyone has any more information, in particular things like birthdate and survivors, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

* this is the best essay I've ever read about what it used to be like to buy comics.

* slightly reminiscent of (I think) basketball player Charles Barkley claiming not to have read things in his own autobiography is the writer of a recent, unpopular Spider-Man arc saying he didn't like what he wrote, either. I said slightly reminiscent. Actually, the odder thing about it is any mainstream comics writer from this generation of mainstream comics writers declaring any level of dissatisfaction with a high-profile gig just completed. Dick Hyacinth provides analysis. If the unpopular "deal with a devil" storyline whereby Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson traded their marriage and knowledge of it for the few whispers of life not yet lived by 140-year-old Aunt May somehow ends with a skeevy Peter Parker chasing women all over the Marvel Universe, I have to admit I will be delighted to read the complaining on the message boards.

* there's a good point in this essay by Matt Maxwell about the fetish object status of many elaborate book re-packagings in comics right now; I can't say as I approve of the stuff up top, though.

* it's my understanding from multiple sources that Brian Warmoth has also given his notice at Wizard; I thought I might have already posted that, but apparently I haven't. Wizard has recently parted ways with a number of staffers.

* the South African cartoonist Zapiro has won another comics award, this one concerning cliched images about the African continent. I'm beginning to think it's only news when Zapiro doesn't win the award.

* the writer Brian Doherty praises the latest volumes of the ongoing Popeye and Peanuts collection by stressing the awesomeness of their content, which is about the only way you can go with that stuff.

* a Happy Birthday one day late to our comics coverage pal Chris Mautner of Panels and Pixels, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, The Comics Journal and Blog@Newsarama.

* you should really go see the Suiho Tagawa Slide Show on the new Blog Flume.
 
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