– Our own Chris Mautner is giving a couple of library talks tomorrow and next Monday in Central Pennsylvania.
– NPR recently did a story on the whole Diary of A Wimpy Kid phenomenon.
– Paul Gravett took pictures at this year’s Angouleme Festival. So did this person.
– Children’s book illustrator Jon Scieszka talks about the value of kids reading comics, among other things.
– Maggie Thompson makes some reading suggestions for those who’ve never read Gordo by the late Gus Arriola. Tom Spurgeon has an excellent obit as well.
– How Larry Young would save the country … maybe:
If I got installed President, I’d send out ambassadors to every country in the world and, at the same time, have them deliver the same message to the governments they spoke to: “Holy shit, we are REALLY sorry for all of that crap we’ve done since, oh, let’s call it 1990 for easy figuring, and if you could just give us a little time to sweep up our shit, we’d sure appreciate it. We’ve got the bomb, and all, and we’ll still fuck your shit up if you look at us funny, but all of that other crap was bad form and like I said, we apologize. Go back to what you were doing, and we’re going to get our shit together and we’ll see you next year. In the meantime, enjoy this Lynyrd Skynyrd song we’re broadcasting from all our spy satellites, and we’ll see you in 2009. Our bad.”
While this may have some internal appeal, you can see how it may be internationally unworkable.
– The Atlanta Journal Constitution profiles a guy with 30,000 comics.
– Plan 9 from Outer Space … the comic book. Via
Compiled by JK Parkin and Chris Mautner.
