Missed It: Various News Stories

Here are a few news items on which I'm slightly behind and happy to bring to your delayed attention in one fell, information-packed swoop.

* A group of armed men tried to break into Pakistani cartoonist Muhammad Zahoor's house late last week, and exchanged shots with a local watchman as they made their retreat. This is one of those stories that's so terrifying to think about, it almost doesn't register: you sort of sit there and intermittently have it dawn on you that this guy had people show up at his house at 2 AM to kill him because of his cartoons. Zahoor lives in Peshawar and works for the Daily Times.

* Mikhaela Reid continued her coverage of the recent East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention in Philadelphia with a write-up of the Having Our Say: Black Women Discuss Imagery panel. I love Reid's format.

* UDON Entertainment to unveil a Manhwa line starting this October. Wielding my ignorance of Asian comics like a magic charm, I'm having a hard time putting my finger on why this might be significant beyond, you know, a new line -- it may be that a new line is a bigger enterprise at this point than when the sources of those comics were less accessed, or maybe most of the manhwa that's been out thus far has been folded into other line.

* Bernice Eisenstein's I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors has been shortlisted for Canada's Trillium Book Award. The book incorporates cartoon imagery and its nomination makes it the first book with a comics hook to receive that particular recognition.
 
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