Today on the site we have: Steve Ringgenberg's obituary of Sheldon Moldoff; And Ken Parille, who swears he's not writing a superhero column, turned in a piece about superhero bodies and costumes. Ken is the co-editor of the forthcoming (and excellent, but more on that in another post) book The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist. That same book holds a very funny and insightful essay by Chris Ware, whose home is examined in photographs over at Trip City. Yesterday, in a link to Joe McCulloch's incredible post, Tom Spurgeon mentioned a possible shift in how comics history is being built these days. I think he's right. Part of the impetus for ye ol' Comics Comics six years ago was to reshape the way we thought about the cartooning lineage, and I think it's gone even further than we ever imagined. The surge in interest in things like Heavy Metal, and the corresponding HM-link comics being published now is a real generational shift. How it plays out is anyone's guess, but if I was still in the writing-books-about-comics-history biz I'd be looking over my shoulder. Speaking of which, here's Michel Fiffe on the mostly forgotten series Wasteland. For some "trad" comics history here's a mysterious Joe Simon publishing discovery.
And, hey, Kevin Huizenga finished a new book. This is good news.
Finally, since we all love videos, it's TCJ-fave Tom De Haven talking about comics in the curriculum.
http://vimeo.com/37927842
