* Saving this for when I can really sink my teeth into it: Ken Parille compares the creation stories of Jack Kirby and Chris Ware, the two best cartoonists, for the Comics Journal.
* Speaking of the King and the Journal, TCJ.com has posted the infamous Gary Groth/Jack Kirby interview in which Kirby claims sole credit for most of the great Marvel comics; as I say over at Robot 6, the claims are dubious, the emotion behind them understandable.
* Also at Robot 6, a few brief thoughts on the importance of Kramers Ergot.
* Winter Is Coming rounds up the latest batch of Game of Thrones reviews and recaps. This feature is great one-stop shopping for GoT crit, if you’re looking for such.
* Curt Purcell returns to the topic of religion’s role in Battlestar Galactica. He’s harder on the show than I am, certainly, but he wields his criticism with far more precision than “OMG NO JEEBUS IN MY SF!!!”, which was as far as many reviewers got.
* Great Renee French drawing, or greatest Renee French drawing?
* Hans Rickheit gets his Mutter Museum on and draws medical deformities.
* Is this a new Kevin Huizenga strip, or is it an old one I missed someplace? Either way it expresses a sentiment I’m sure anyone who’s ever freelanced has felt.
* The Rapture reunites with DFA? Sure, I’ll eat it.
* A 33 1/3 book about prog? Sure, I’ll eat that too.
* I was really sad to hear of the death of Macho Man Randy Savage. The man was like an entertainment elemental: Everything about how he looked, sounded, and acted was a delight. Ben Morse reflects on his unique gifts as a pro wrestler, a gig in which he combined mic skills, stage presence, and technical prowess in a way few have before or since.
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The Huizenga is from the catalog for the Cartoon Polymaths show that was up at SVA in NYC recently.
Thanks, Derik!
Apologies, it was at Parsons, not SVA.
That Renee French piece is nothing short of pencil lead voodoo.