Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a writer Jim Mroczkowski talks about "hands-off" characters, a concept in which I used to believe but now feels completely irrelevant to the way I think about those kinds of comics. It's sort of that while I feel something like Steve Gerber's Howard The Duck has the weight of lousy company practices of the past -- and limited options as a result -- to it, I'm not sure that's true of any modern character. I'm not sure how much honor there is in supporting any one depiction of a character designed to have multiple masters no matter how hard that one depiction might hit. That way seems to lie the Broadway revival with the star that's 40 years too old for the part.

* I love the pages of the vintage, late-'60s fanzine reprinted here.

* not comics: a lot of these club flyers are fun-looking.

* I think the case can be made that the Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne run was more cognizant of social issues than is indicated in this post about X-Men stories that the author feels do handle that kind of thing well, but I'm not sure how far such arguments should go and that was never my main interest in those stories, anyway. Like I sort of remember a bunch of stuff around the edges of that first Proteus story, but not anything so interesting I'd care to go back and pore over it.

* not comics: is it weird that I find the images of Brainiac with the gun and Brainiac with his head covered by brush in this post extremely disturbing?

* Al Jaffee talks about James Sturm's Market Day from a unique perspective: as someone who grew up in a world that looked like the one in Sturm's graphic novel.

* how the hell did I miss that Mark Millar's convention is coming with Stan Lee Awards? The brain shouldn't shut down until after you start thinking about such an awards program, not before or during.

* not comics: it's nice to see Jim Woodring-related t-shirts. Woording's "Pulque" shirt was one of the gems in Fantagraphics' ultimately ill-fated 1990s line of shirts.

* finally, here's today's Christmas-shopping updates: Andy Kuhn, one of the nicer people in the Land Of Comics, just posted a bunch of art to eBay. Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd are having a holiday sale. And how the hell did I miss this gorgeous 2011 poster from Ron Regé Jr. or Little Otsu generally?
 
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