Random Comics News Story Update

* Jeet Heer examines Seth and Chester Brown as late-born Canadian nationalists.

* the writer Graeme McMillan has a longish post up about how the reputation of certain comics can keep people from reading them, both out of intimidation and from the fear that you won't like it and thus the people who do will look down on you. Even if you don't agree with his theories, his description of kind of poking around Love & Rockets and then having it click for him after a certain length of exposure to the material will be familiar to a lot of fans of that work.

* speaking of Love & Rockets, everyone is ogling this fun Jaime Hernandez cover for the second go-around of the Marvel alt-comics creators doing versions of their characters series Strange Tales.

* cartoonist and blogger Mike Lynch tells a story about a form of presentation that was all but lost to the popularity of a digital form, but then made a comeback: the record album. Before he's swarmed with nerd lawyers, Lynch isn't trying to make a strident point but just suggesting "you never know."

* Ralph Bakshi/Wally Wood team-up.

* deadline reminder one: the next issue of Best American Comics.

* deadline reminder two: the Isotope Award For Excellence In Mini-Comics.

* deadline reminder three: TCAF 2011.

* if you think the comics industry is in a bad place here, it sounds like things are worse in Angola.

* finally, the great Bob Levin sent along this link to a psychological examination of conventions, specifically Comic-Con. I sympathize with the power that finding yourself in a community that actually gets your jokes can have; that was my experience going to work at Fantagraphics. However, I think the biggest shift isn't from isolation with an on-line component that just doesn't have the same effect to a convention experience that provides community, but a two-pronged effect where the convention experience consummates the on-line friendships and relationships already established.
 
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