Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Ted Rall moves from president-elect to president of the AAEC.

* potentially troubled, for-sale syndicate Tribune Media Services has launched its on-line catalog.

* go here for Jessica Palmieri's photos from the weekend's Kim Deitch exhibit opening in New York.

* not comics: goofing around on the Internet early in the morning led me to this April 2008 article about the state of criticism.

* major line-up changes have been announced at the San Francisco Chronicle, which to my memory has a very positive pro-comics reputation. The state of newspapers being what it is, they've previously made public that they're moving to four pages from six pages on their Sunday line-up. Gone: Mister Boffo, The Fusco Brothers, Brevity, Tokyopop's revolving offering and Sherman's Lagoon. Dilbert moves to the business section. The paper will add Candorville.

* there haven't been a lot of Kevin Huizenga interviews yet, so this one at du9 seems worth noting.

* people keep sending me this.

* if your Internet-Fu is such you can avoid the teeth-grinding inconvenience of having a radio program pop up and start talking if you want it to or not, you might want to get a reminder for Clay Bennett's Mr. Media interview. That should be a good one.

* finally, the official word is that there is no official word about Berkeley Breathed ending his Opus. The content of recent strips and some circumstantial evidence have led some to believe this may be coming to pass. Personally, I like the fact that the strip is around, although I know some readers are down on it and a few editors may even bear a grudge against the Sunday-only feature based on I think it initially being presented as a savior for the Sunday funnies due to Breathed's considerable and well-earned 1980s-era popularity. Any talented cartoonist willing to do new work for the comics page should be welcome no matter how the result matches expectations. Besides, 200 or so clients in this market (I think that's the number) is nothing to sneeze at. I think it speaks well of Breathed's creative integrity that Opus seems to have worked with audiences at times and not worked at all other times, as opposed to his providing something middle-of-the-road and assured that might please the broadest audience in the most general ways on more days of the year. In other words, I hope Opus sticks around as long as he wants to do it, and not a second less or more. Dave Astor engages the subject here.
 
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