Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Cartoon Movement announces its participation in a research project with the London School Of Economics And Political Science.

* IDW, one of the more aggressive companies when it comes to pursuing digital on a variety of platforms, has now placed 19 graphic novels into the iBooks store.

* totally missed this: Chris Butcher interviews Taiyo Matsumoto for the manga neighborhood of the About.com site on the release of his No.5 into English for the iPad. Here is that work previewed.

* this Kickstarter campaign to fund the teaching of comics-making to young women in Cambodia met its goal before I even saw the e-mail asking me to draw your attention to it.

* here's a patient explanation of the DC digital initiative. It's told mostly from DC's point of view in a publishing-news style way, but it is careful to note things like the solid objections many direct market retailers had to the deal they were offered to work with DC's partner Comixology on selling digital copies. I'm not sure how to take the last line that DC expects no poaching from print, as I believe that pirated scans from physical copies were available before the physical copies were. It could be that this is speaking to some other type of poaching. Comics Alliance points out that many fans hate change, even when it's drawn by David Mazzucchelli. If nothing else, the New 52 initiative has brought us several posts from retailer/blogger Mike Sterling. Martin Wisse rolls his eyes at Superman's new "image."

* can pop-culture creations become myths if they're owned by big corporations?

* no one told me that Brian K. Vaughan had become the President of the United States.

* here's another comics-related documentary film project. That's a lot of white dudes.

* Daryl Cagle picks out five funny cartoons about the GOP presidential field.

* the Asheville Citizen-Times profiles Chris Sparks and his efforts on behalf of Team Cul-De-Sac.

* Brigid Alverson on Chimichanga. Sean Gaffney on Drifters Vol. 1. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Boys Of Steel. Johanna Draper Carlson on the first three issues of the new Criminal mini-series.

* not comics: I'm not sure how I ended up with this one in my bookmarks, but apparently Ginette Lapalme's cat is sick? Washington is a great name for a cat.

* here's a photo of the Little Island Comics storefront, complete with lucky, about-to-be customer.

* Bhob Stewart provides a semi-massive post on EC Comics-era lettering.

* Tom Devlin extols the virtues of Marc Bell, while Mark Siegel celebrates the uniqueness of Sara Varon.

* still loving these scans of years-ago indie comics advertisements.

* the cartoonist Shannon Wheeler covers this year's Alternative Press Expo program, for the show of the same name taking place on October 1-2. I'm reading that people are really scrambling for close-proximity rooms or even apartment floor space for that show.

* manga curmudgeon David P. Welsh takes one of his intermittent looks at his collection by sorting it by title and letter -- while this sounds kind of arbitrary, it actually has the effect of making you realize how much eminently readable manga material there is out there in little cross-sections like that. Speaking of reliable writers about manga, Katherine Dacey is redesigning her long-running web site.

* not comics: various broadcast interviews and news stories and trailers in support of the Boilerplate franchise.

* that's just the Cannon Way.

* Graphic NYC gives the writer Grant Morrison its photo + profile treatment. Fantagraphics has an interview up with the great Kevin Huizenga. Boing Boing chats with Craig Yoe.

* the writer Mark Verheiden writes about buying old comics just to see them subsequently reprinted, and suggests Al Feldstein's teen comics at Fox as a likely candidate for future collection.

* finally, I guess "GD" means "God" to some people? And cursing is somehow a liberal trait? Another tempest in a teapot for the funnybook industry and another chance to run something that drives a bunch of comments.
 
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