Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* go, bookmark: the Minneapolis Lutefisk Sushi show will have a third iteration, it's been announced on their site. Multiple contributors and a lot of Kevin Cannon this time around.

* the New York Magazine Book Review looks at two immensely successful children's books that work in a hybrid comics form: The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid volumes.

* Cyril Pedrosa muses on the graphic novel, providing a French industry perspective seldom heard in North American discussions of same.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com interviews the owners of Haven Distribution, formerly Cold Cut, about their ramp-up plans.

* Steve Saffel looks at plans for a major book publisher to do a non-returnable imprint, and what that may mean. I'm kind of confused by the marketing point. If as reported this imprint will be aimed at the Stephen Kings and Mitch Alboms of the prose worlds, I can't see it having an added benefit of marketing for those title -- that level of author is already heavily promoted and marketed because they're that level of author.

* not comics: Andy Heidel notes that the Harry Potter trial against a work that serves as commentary on Rowling's work is happening. The parallels to similar comics-related projects should be obvious, although I can't vouch for the legal connection.

* the writer Chris Mautner has a long interview with Francoise Mouly.

* the writer Tucker Stone talks about how violence is (mis-)used in mainstream American comic books.

* the late artist Jim Mooney's last published work appeared in Sunday's Funky Winkerbean.

* finally, here's a not-comics story that might be of some interest. The game designer Monte Cook goes over his company's recent experiences with publishing PDFs on-line and selling them at the same time as the print product. The game industry isn't exactly like the comics industry -- let alone exactly the comics industry no matter what you may think if you live between the coasts -- but in some ways the serve as a collapsed star version of comics' infrastructure in that they seem to be out ahead on certain matters like selling on-line versions in order to correct huge holes in saturation and availability of print product. Penguin is among those companies that has just announced a more aggressive on-line version release plan.
 
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