Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it appears the Kramers Ergot Vol. 7 signing at Drawn and Quarterly's store originally scheduled for yesterday has been moved to this evening.

* the writer Sean T. Collins writes about autobiographical comics author Denny Eichhorn, whose Real Stuff was an anchor of 1990s alternative comic books and is now largely forgotten. I don't know that I really believe that Eichhorn's adventures stand out in bold relief against a backdrop of whiny, weak-willed and weepy autobiographical cartoonists, partly because I think the size and extent of that particular backdrop is hugely overstated (Eichhorn's peers include Joe Sacco, Mary Fleener and Harvey Pekar) and partly because Denny's life stories would stand out no matter where you put them. The important thing to me is that simply taken on their own merits there were a lot of really good Eichhorn-written comics done, with artists like JR Williams, Carel Moiseiwitsch and Carol Swain offering up some of their best work. Any collection or the individual comics themselves would be well worth tracking down.

* this is awesome.

* speaking of forgotten works from the 1990s, Frank Santoro found a copy of perhaps the very best Eros Comix book of all time, Spank, and posts both a cover and a terrifying-looking page. If the Internet has ruined one thing about comics, it ruined the market for demented sex comics that offered up as much dementia as sex.

* I remember reading this comic. My life is odd.

* here's a nice report about the great Gene Colan's appearance at the Cartoon Art Museum, and here are a couple of photos of his accepting the Sparky Award. I love Colan's glasses.

* missed it: your 2008 Webcomics Idol Winner. I don't know anything about that contest, to be perfectly honest.

* finally, the writer Dick Hyacinth shares his list of books he'll consider for Best of 2008; between his list and the books suggested in the comments thread, you'll have a solid list of newer works to read.

Update: Sean Collins wrote in about the comparison to weak and whiny autobio cartoonists to say: "That's not really what I was thinking of -- I was thinking more of the very recent generation of people like Vanessa Davis or Gabrielle Bell, who don't even do whining -- it's just like 'here's something that happened.'"
 
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