September 26, 2013
Go, Look: Boys And Girls’ March Of Comics #52
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Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: Digital News
By Tom Spurgeon
* comiXology
has reached 200 million downloads in an acceleration of the services they provide. The company was founded in 2007 and reached the 100 million mark in 2012.
Here is an article speculating in blunt fashion about a potential IPO at some point down the line -- they want sooner rather than later.
* the writer
Frank M. Young is working on a bibliography in e-book of John Stanley's 1960s work.
* the aggressiveness of those in charge of the
2000 AD material
in getting those comics available via digital means has been a huge boon for the half-dozen or so of my friends that are consumers of that material.
* finally, one of the great services Gary Tyrrell performs for the webcomics community at his
Fleen is breaking down the presence of the cartoonists about which that community cares at major conventions. His NYCC previews are
here and
here.
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If I Were In Melbourne, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In St. Petersburg, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Berlin, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Columbus, I’d Go To This
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Not Comics: Bunchy
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* a blog that catalogs abuses connected to Scientology,
Infinite Complacency,
looks at the short comics biography L'Evadé De La Secte.
* Tim O'Shea talks to
Art Baltazar and Franco.
* Richard Bruton on
Minimal Comics and
Yoko Tsuno. J. Caleb Mozzocco on
a bunch of those DC Comics villains books. I've read a bunch of those, too. Rob Clough on
Persia Blues. Sean Gaffney on
One Piece Vol. 68.
* not comics:
here's a call for more Marvel women characters with powers in the Marvel movie/TV universe.
* Dean Haspiel
draws Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge and Forsyth Pendleton Jones III.
*
here are the ten things that Whit Taylor has learned making autobio comics.
*
these roughs by Rina Piccolo are interesting, especially given what her final comics look like.
* finally, I keep trying to find a place to run
this Lynda Barry comic from a couple of weekends ago and keep failing.
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Happy 62nd Birthday, Jim Shooter!
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Happy 67th Birthday, Matthias Schultheiss!
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Happy 86th Birthday, Jack Katz!
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Happy 48th Birthday, Mattt Konture!
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