Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the esteemed comics creator, creators rights advocate and historian Jerry Robinson joins DC Comics as a consultant; hopefully his consulting will have some of the flavor of the on-stage broadsides during his last couple of Bill Finger speeches in San Diego.

* a big chunk of Paul Gravett's TCJ cover-featured discussion with Posy Simmonds appears here.

* if I understand the standards provided in this article correctly, I can only speak on women's issues in comics 1/3 of the time.

* as in America, cartoonists in Brunei aren't always respected; not so much like America, they're supposedly well-paid.

* the Schulz and Peanuts PR juggernaut continues its way across the print and on-line media landscape: here's probably the best feature article from the weekend just past: 12 Things You Didn't Know About Charles Schulz. The real action is in the comments thread of this posting at Cartoon Brew, with family members and friends piping in. Schulz received additional attention over the weekend in anticipation of his American Masters profile, which begins running on various PBS stations tonight.

* it's not exactly comics, but I can't imagine any comics reader not being interested in at least taking a look at Jack Davis' Don Quixote children's book project when it's completed. Fifty-five drawings!

* this is the coolest fan art you're likely to see all year, Kevin Huizenga doing two portraits of characters from CF's Powr Mastrs.

* E&P picks up on the odd Crankshaft joke from last Friday. I'll go into what I find interesting about such strips at a later date, it's not what's been suggested for me, but the tenor of such debates is so awful on both sides that I hesitate to do so while some people out there are still working over a specific example.

* do syndicates usually re-package material for presidential elections? I find the thought kind of interesting. Creators has a fine line-up of solid editorial cartoonists, including maybe the biggest figure in that field the last three years, Mike Luckovich.

* a fine article in Epoch Times remembers the Inuit illustrator and cartoonist Alootook Ipellie.

* this post about Barney Google and Rice-A-Roni would have been my Dad's favorite thing to read on the Internet ever.

* if there's any stranger way to start out a week than with the words Massive Scott Nybakken Interview, I don't know what it is. The interview's good, just unexpected, in an unexpected place.
 
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