Joe McCulloch is here as usual this fine Tuesday morning, with a guide to the most interesting-sounding new comics releases of the week.
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
—News. The nominees for Canada's Joe Schuster Awards have been announced.
The CBLDF has a report explaining the recent protest by a 20-year-old California college student over the inclusion in a course of four graphic novels she and her family deem "pornography" and "garbage": Fun Home, Persepolis, and volumes of Y the Last Man and The Sandman.
Michael Cavna at the Washington Post shares some of the results of the #Draw4Atena campaign.
—Reviews & Commentary. Robert Boyd has comics on the mind again lately, with reviews of Bill Schelly's Harvey Kurtzman biography and the first print issue of Kayla E.'s Nat. Brut.
Sequential State reviews Josh Simmons's harrowing Black River.
Neil Cohn writes about a study that seems to show that the supposed universality of cartoon images is just that: supposed.
—Not Comics. Michael Lind wonders why no one under 40 cares about fine art—did capitalism kill it? I am posting this mostly to see if Dan likes it, is annoyed by it, both, or neither.
