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CR Sunday Interview: Charles Hatfield
***** I've known Charles Hatfield since he was one of the go-to writers at The Comics Journal in the mid- to late-1990s. He has since become one of my windows into the world of academic writing about...
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Comics' Giving Heart -- Projects, People In Need Of Funding
* indie comics veteran Batton Lash has launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of the next Supernatural Law trade: The Monsters Meet On Court Street. Batton is one of my favorite people in comics. *...
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Neil Gaiman is to receive approximately $400K from an escrow account established by Todd McFarlane. * Michael Dooley talks to J. David Spurlock about Wally Wood. Spurlock was recently named director...
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Three Comics Characters And Their Creators
***** * The character Velia Rossi was created by Rina Piccolo. ***** * The character Stu was created by Dan Wright. ***** *The character Captain Easy was created by Roy Crane. ***** This month I'm...
View ArticleGerman Police Union Cartoons Slammed With Racism Charges
This is one of those stories that's difficult to follow for mostly not being reported in a language with which I'm familiar (I can feign competency with English, and that's about it). It looks like a...
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Jan Berenstain, 1923-2012
Jan Berenstain, who for decades with her husband Stan was part of the one of the most effective cartooning and children's publishing creative partnerships of the 20th Century, died on February 24 from...
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Sheldon Moldoff, 1920-2012
Sheldon Moldoff, a widely published comic book artist of the North American comic book's first four decades who contributed in significant fashion to the Hawkman and Batman franchises, died on...
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Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update
This is pretty straight-forward today, but also fairly major. Four men will be tried in Denmark with crimes related to a terror plot to shoot up the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. It's that...
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the very excellent cartoonist David Mazzucchelli has strongly disavowed a sloppily-produced version of his foundational superhero work Batman: Year One. * I think I've done formal art posts out of...
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Three Comics Characters And Their Creators
***** The character Jackeen J. O'Malley was created by Crockett Johnson. ***** The character Karkas was created by Jack Kirby. ***** The character The Human Torch was created by Carl Burgos. ***** This...
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