Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* does anyone have the results to last night's Montreal Expozine awards?

* although modest in terms of its direct impact, a certain amount of significance could be argued for this item about the Corpus Christi Caller-Times adding a page of daily strips and five Sunday strips to its comics offerings -- expanding that section for potential greater appeal as opposed to shrinking it to save on syndication costs and paper. If a half dozen papers were follow suit, I would be very interested in seeing if they were rewarded for the effort.

* today's must-reading in terms of comics history would be this Ian Black review of the new Naji al-Ali exhibit. Al-Ali is one of the half-dozen international cartoonists of the last 25 years that all comics fans should know.

* the New York Times delves into David Hajdu's Ten-Cent Plague.

* I wasn't aware there was going to be a big superhero/fashion retrospect at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art starting in May; this article talks all about it, and mentions a few instances of superhero influence on recent fashion. (thanks, Paul Di Filippo)

* Stay Tooned! magazine has launched after a lengthy road to publication. Congratulations to its editor and (I think) publisher, John Read.

* newspaper industry bible Editor & Publisher spotlights a Ted Rall cartoon about editorial cartooning.

* the Eisner Awards submissions deadline is this Friday.

* not comics, but still awful beyond words.

* the writer Jonathan Woodward explains why there are three different books named Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 2

* finally, Mark Evanier talks about his various comics and comics-related projects and how happy and healthy he is.
 
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