Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Frank Santoro visits Seattle and Vancouver.

* happy real birthday to 2000 AD. That's one of those publications you can sort of love without ever having read one.

* Alan Bisbort talks to Bill Griffith. Some nameless, charming Latvian profiles Maré Odomo. A small army of folks interviews Dave Morris. Albert Ching talks to Matt Fraction. Paul Gravett profiles Luke Pearson.

* Osamu Tezuka 101.

* it'd be nice if these were collected, I guess, but I thought Mitchum was a nicely-conceived book just the way it was -- so I guess I'd prefer a re-release. I swear, I'm just going to get crankier and crankier about the move away from slim volumes the more years we go down that road.

* here's the must-read recent CJR article on the future of cartooning, and here's Eddie Campbell reminding us that it exists.

* Sean Kleefeld asserts that because Marvel's history always begins 10 years ago, that means everything in the Marvel Comics overarching storyline happened after 9/11. That's totally worth it if it means the leader of the Secret Empire whose suicide depressed the crap out of Captain America was Dick Cheney.

* I'm not certain if I put up a link to the English translation of this last installment of Guy Delisle's Angouleme diary or if I blew it off, but it's worth visiting again.

* so apparently Portland has good comics shops I haven't even heard of yet.

* not comics: Ulises Farina draws Mos Eisley or whatever form of that word applies to the town, I forget. I would have flipped out over that when I was eight years old, although I'm never certain I would have followed Stars Wars into today's comic books or not -- wasn't a fan of the Marvel books when I was a kid.

* Judy Drood is indeed pretty awesome.

* not comics: I never thought about there being comic strip puzzles, but of course there are.

* Rip Jagger on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. Katherine Dacey on Soulless: The Manga Vol. 1. John Kane on various comics. Johanna Draper Carlson on World Of Will. Bob Temuka on 2000 AD Prog 2012. Bart Croonenborghs on Is That All There Is? Brandon Soderberg on Streakers. Rob Clough picks his top 30 mini-comics of 2011. Lauren Davis on a bunch of sexy webcomics.

* finally, let a sneer be your parasol. I get the best e-mail.
 
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