Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Gary Tyrrell is all over this story about big changes at the webcomics portal Keenspot.

* this should be a link to people on Twitter asking questions of cartoonist Colleen Coover. If not, then please enjoy this picture of Pirate Ben Grimm.

* comics editor Andy Schmidt blogs about breaking into comics as an editor. I became an editor in comics by applying in blind fashion to an advertisement I saw in a magazine in a comics shop during an afternoon of sneaking out of my then-office and then being lucky enough to have the four people ahead of me for that job crap out on it. It's very romantic, I know. Life was like that in the Summer Of OJ.

* there's a compelling exchange between TCJ early on-line MVP R. Fiore and the comics and cultural historian Jeet Heer over such things as gay stereotypes and blackface in comics here.

* speaking of TCJ, I'm not sure I noticed that Leonard Rifas will be posting. I'd say that's a deep bench, but I'm pretty certain Rifas starts at small forward.

* Ted Rall and Matt Bors converse.

* not comics: since Dan Slott asked, my hall of fame coin-operated video games are Sea Wolf, Fire Truck, Tailgunner 2, Xevious and Cliff Hanger. Nobody really remembers Cliff Hanger, but I spent like 100 quarters working my way through one at Syracuse University.

* whoa, digitized panel excerpts from the 1975 San Diego Comic-Con? Are you kidding me? Is there nothing out there so rare, so obscure, so arcane we won't somehow eventually get to see/hear/have it as the Age Of Geekdom enters its second decade? I'm becoming convinced the world of comics is one big grandparents' garage and all the boxes and suitcases are destined to be opened.

* finally, King Features is recovering a bit from hackers invading its Comic Kingdom.
 
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