Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this letter to fellow Tokyopop orphans from Chuck Austen is fascinating for the details he provides. I'm still digesting it. There's a super-fine line between the kind of encouraging advice Austen gives and being seen as more forgiving than most because things worked out for you. He kind of jumps back and forth across that line a ton, but I think that piece would be less interesting if it were more politic.

* Sean Gaffney on Barrage Vol. 1. Jeffrey O. Gustafson on The Shade, Hawkeye Vol. 1 and a bunch of different comics. Ryan Holmberg on Clone Woman. Alex Hern on Lose #4. Glen Weldon on the Maurice Sendak interview in The Comics Journal #302.

* I've whined on here before that I have a hard time wrapping my brain around the costume impulse (and that I may have a tendency to overthink when it comes to processing why others embrace it). I'm also frequently surprised by how many comics collections include a sizable number of toys. I always thought that was two separate markets, and in fact the people I know that keep a bunch of comics either don't have toys at all or have one or two more as a novelty than as something that is part of their enjoyment of comics. There are a thousand ways to like something, and it's good to be reminded of that.

* this Jackie Chan comic link ended up bookmarked as "MotoHagioChan" in my folder, so I'm guessing that's what that is. I blame late nights trying to figure out Tumblr.

* check out the excellent Tad Dorgan that Robert Boyd recently purchased.

* the writer Matt Fraction reminds that Bill Sienkiewicz once adapted David Lynch adapting Frank Herbert.

* Kelli Korducki talks to Jaime Hernandez. Ryan Burton talks to Boaz Yakin.

* Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia, has announced a conference and its intention to add a two-year program in comics and graphic novels. You can learn more about its current, Ken Steacy-directed program here. The conference is scheduled for April 7.

* finally, I read a couple of days back that many of these fine Joseph Remnant drawings are still available. I like them and wish I could buy them all.
 
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