Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* over at Robo5 6, Brigid Alverson catches NBM's announcement of a move into digital, and what the PR suggests about more general plans.

* I liked these cartoons that Julia Wertz and Laura Park did about Wertz's recent visit to Chicago. Here's a second post.

* the writer and critic David Brothers uses the Joe Casey-written Superman comics from a few years back -- the ones where he didn't hit anybody -- as a trigger to muse on Superman as a character.

* the writer and comics industry historian Mark Evanier discusses a unearthed video about the horror comics scare of the 1950s.

* I enjoyed the first issue of this Xombi comic, although I didn't shudder with pleasure the way that some of my comics-reviewing peers seemed to. That second cover looks nice.

* I quite liked this Colin Smith post about a panel of The Broons that gets him choked up, and why.

* nobody as routinely funny as Peter Bagge can be ever came to where I went to school.

* the CBLDF posts about Chief Justice Roberts and the First Amendment.

* these Kim Thompson posts about the more arcane parts of his job are some of the bests posts going. This time out he talks about translating a slightly naughty expression from the Joost Swarte pages he's working on -- and nothing else matters more than the fact that Kim Thompson is finally hard at work on some Joost Swarte pages.

* the cartoonist Scott Adams is on one entertaining run right now, you have to admit.

* Martin Wisse has a fun post up here about digital copies being made of the short-lived comics publishing house Spark, and the hidden gems that they reveal in the form of comics work by Jerry Robinson, Mac Raboy and the wonderful Mort Meskin.

* Johanna Draper Carlson tracks the planned collapse of the Tokyopop web site and how some fans didn't find out until then that the company had announced plans to stop publishing.

* not comics: think a bunch of happy thoughts before diving into this profile of Maurice Sendak.

* finally, here's a great idea for an article. Sean Gaffney takes an analytical piece on top properties at three of the major manga publishers and susses out the wisdom behind what's being published and what's not being published in North America.
 
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