Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I totally missed this, but Sonia Harris didn't: last week David Malki went ahead and won the Kickstarter debate, here and here.

* Omar Martini talks to Alan Moore.

* not comics and super self-indulgent, so maybe skip: one thing that I've been doing the last couple of days is looking at the entirety of profiles I have on-line. I have a couple of facebook accounts and a publishing page, a couple of twitter accounts, four different e-mail accounts and CR -- not exactly a ton of places to go. Something I do now that's surprising to me considering how long I've been on-line is I try to adjust the level of conversation to the people with whom I'm interacting. Like I don't try to post comics stuff on my personal Facebook account unless I think that my high school friends and my family members might be interested: I didn't post about creator's rights to my college buddies that took their kids to see Avengers. I also tend to prune people more aggressively if I think the way they're interacting with me is going to be weird for the bulk of the people with whom I interact via that specific avenue -- like if someone from here in town starts hounding me on the CR twitter account. What strikes me as odd is that this essentially self-censoring, and I originally came on-line and let it all hang out and didn't really care how I came across, or how the people with whom I associated came across. Now not giving some person a wholly unpleasant day because I had a bad day in comics or because someone in comics wants to argue about some movie-related thing they just said seems to be a bigger goal. This is probably just me getting old and sad. I also probably suck at it far worse than I realize.

* yeah, I know. Hey, I told you you could skip that.

* Andy Baker on God And Science.

* did you know there are about two years of Richard Thompson's Richard's Poor Almanack here? I don't think I did. Did you know that you can access a bunch of videos from that Chicago All-Star Art Comics conference here? I may do an individual graphic-only post on both of those at some point, but until then I shouldn't hoard the links.

* Meredith Borders talks to Hope Larson.

* this is I believe Moebius drawing an image from I believe the Little Nemo-related movie that came out several years ago. This is clearly Steranko drawing some of the X-Men characters.

* I always find interesting articles that purport to be digging up the really obscure stuff and basically go from 1-A to 1-B.

* there are a number of nauseating assumptions in these yearly box-office report articles. Last year was a record year, so automatically pundits assume that the next year will break that record. When it doesn't, it's disaster time. Industries that depend on revenue models to grow every single year are going to have trouble; it's no longer post-World War II America. I'm not scolding as much as I get worried about arts industries that operate under this assumption. That mindset is how you end up cutting staff to meet a project profit point and cost yourself and the art form in the longer run.

* finally, a Wally Wood color guide.
 
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