Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if you have the stomach for one last Angouleme report, Paul Gravett's is one hell of a meal.

* I'm not sure how on earth I missed an interview with Joe Sacco that's as lively and thoughtful as this one.

* whoa, Jordi Bernet interview

* Comics Comics gets into the teaser game, and I prefer their strategy of posting photos of the Pointer Sisters over pin-ups of superheroes. Speaking of which, there's like eight protuberances on this thing that could be penises.

* my father lived for jokes like this one.

* that first picture could also illustrate an article on what happens to comic book company interns.

* everyone should be excited about the New Yorker celebrating an anniversary with four kick-ass covers from top-of-the-line comics talent.

* not comics: this list of comic book movies coming out in 2010 forgot this one.

* not comics: sometimes it's easy to forget that one of comics' great advantages is that you don't read them in a room full of your ill-behaved fellow townspeople who can't stop talking to one another despite your intense mental projections of face-stabbing. I'm serious, if this whole planetary civilization thing takes a turn for the worse I think we can all take a few seconds of solace knowing that various things we saw at movie theaters and in lines at the airport will soon come to an end.

* I'm enjoying these (the softcovers) right now, even though it didn't help me process a certain joke in the Joe Casey interview and I'm still not totally convinced the enterprise entire is any good. I wonder if 20 years from now comics readers will appreciate some of the really oddball mainstream comics machinations -- like giving the Fourth World to Jim Starlin and then taking it back again -- the way we appreciate some of the peculiarities of 1970s superhero pulp.

* finally, Alan Gardner of Daily Cartoonist is giving away comic strip syndication packages, and you can be the beneficiary.
 
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