It’s a weak way to provide content for fan/genre sites while also keeping a movie/book/whatever in the public consciousness. It’s annoying, but at least io9 isn’t nearly as lousy with these articles as sites like Comic Book Resources.

Art Spiegelman ("Maus") had a brother named Richeu who was born in
Poland before the war. In fact, Richeu died in the Holocaust at like
age 5, with only a single photograph surviving the war. In "Maus",
Spiegelman mentions how odd it was to have a sibling rivalry with a
single photo. His parents always saw Richeu as…

Mr Petchesky, it may have been worth it to keep reading the article (or to have found a non-truncated version of the article/interview.) The Chicago Tribune's copy of the story ends with this:

Tell that to Jackie Robinson. He and Branch Rickey knew that integrating the Dodgers was going to cause a shitstorm, and they took endless precautions to prepare both themselves and the rest of the team for the change. Change takes time, especially against an entrenched position. The first few openly gay pro athletes…