Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the latest issue of Dark Horse Presents on MySpace features both Achewood and Beanworld.

* the cartoonist Jim Borgman emphasizes that he's not retiring, just reducing what was a pretty staggering workload. Certainly the story isn't Borgman's reduced workload -- he's successful enough he should be able to set his own hours and priorities at this point -- but that Borgman is a singularly successful cartoonist in a modest-sized market, and the way he's been embraced by Cincinnati has always been a model for a newspaper-cartoonist relationship. It's sort of like finding out Cartoon Dad and Cartoon Mom still love each other and will stay married, but Cartoon Dad is going to be living in the gatehouse.

* the great Ben Katchor will make a rare modern-day convention appearance at the 2008 Small Press Expo (SPX).

* is it really this difficult to find comics for kids? I'm not doubting the writer, just doubting the priorities of the world in which someone like him gets to operate. I was at a social gathering over the weekend, and a lot of parents asked after comics for kids as if they were asking if they still made Tiny Mighty Mo's; there's something that's not quite connecting there.

* the writer and commentator Hervé St-Louis asks after what Marvel does with its potentially privacy-law troublesome information, and again why they wouldn't be forthcoming about such plans given such laws.

* finally, a 20-year-old book begins a not very severe slide down the sales charts. I'm not sure that any of us have a handle on how completely weird this story is. Speaking of Watchmen, have I already linked to this? I think I have, but I'm not certain.
 
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