Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* you know those medical movies where a patient that hasn't been doing well takes a sudden turn for the worse, usually in spectacularly grotesque fashion? I'm not sure how to better describe Borders losing over four times as much money in April as it did in March.

* over at TCJ.com, veteran writer about comics Steve Ringgenberg remembers Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

* here's a recording of the illustration panel from TCAF, featuring Jillian Tamaki, Adrian Tomine and Lorenzo Mattotti.

* not comics: Sean T. Collins wonders after the psychedelic potential of the forthcoming Green Lantern movie, in the context of a well-traveled Grant Morrison post from a while back.

* the writer Mark Verheiden just doesn't get why the Archie comics deserve the deluxe hardcover treatment.

* here's a round-up of writers discussing various books in Marvel's .1 publishing strategy, which is basically taking a book in a sequence of other books and making it a "jumping on" point for potential new readers. This is one of those things that older readers like myself have a hard time figuring out because jumping into a flow of stories was part of the pleasure for readers in the 1960s and 1970s. But that was more than 30 years ago, and readers have different expectations now and many, many, many more choices.

* this can't be good.

* finally, the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com profiles Michel Choquette and Someday Funnies with a news story and an interview. There won't be a better back story to any project published this year.
 
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