Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a bunch of you sent a link to this article about the decline in web-related rankings for the Newsarama site, which at one time was probably the acknowledged leading on-line comics news-type production out there.

* Eleanor Davis draws robots for the forthcoming benefit show intended to fund the Giant Robot 2 retail space into more of formal gallery.

* I can't remember if I linked to this, but Kate Beaton posted a video thanking her fans on the eve of the book release of Hark! A Vagrant. That's a classy move, and it's too bad that many comics shops waiting for their Diamond shipment won't have a chance to be on board with this as the publicity begins to hit, at least not right away.

* various DC stuff: Here's a piece on decompression in Justice League #1 and how that story could be more firmly packed for greater value. I think this person likely has a point, but broader, general health of mainstream comics issues have even less of a chance of flying when the exact opposite behavior is being richly rewarded. It's like trying to convince someone of the long-term value of broccoli when they just lost 25 pounds in two weeks on the all-McDonald's diet. Deb Aoki pens a more general piece about the DC relaunch from the perspective of a devoted manga reader. In a follow-up to this week's major fan dust-up, DC would like you to know that what they're doing with their Starfire character really isn't like perving up a show from the Disney Channel, it's more like taking a character from a Disney Channel show and giving her a prominent role on a skeevy HBO series. Meanwhile, Graeme McMillan reviews the whole enterprise.

* although I'm not a big one for Facebook campaigns, I'm all for the end result here.

* Daryl Cagle wishes a happy birthday to Thomas Nast, who can't hear him. Seriously, though, I don't think anyone would mind that day becoming some sort of recognized day for editorial image maker. Nast continues to be a real influence for a lot of world cartoonists.

* Kristy Valenti writes about Rob Liefeld as a fashion designer. Well, somebody had to.

* while I can get behind the idea of a title that seeks to consolidate a mainstream comics line's general direction for a year, although I think if I were still a twelve-year-old living and dying by that stuff I'd want a more dramatic name.

* this comic shows up every so often on the scan and post blogs, and it's disturbing every time.

* Gavin Lees talks to Metaphrog. Casey Burchby talks to Michael Kupperman, which just from the names involved sounds very fanciful.

* the WSJ blog profiles Toon Books on the occasion of their imminent Hilary Knight release, Nina. That work looks very pretty.

* Sean T. Collins on Prison Pit Vol. 3. Greg Burgas and Chip Mosher on Planet Of The Apes Vol. 1. Josh Kopin on Wonder Woman #1. Rob Clough on various mini-comics. David Brothers on Holy Terror. Esther Inglis-Arkell on Wonder Woman #1. Don MacPherson on Teen Titans #1. Greg McElhatton on Holy Terror. Johanna Draper Carlson on Angel & Faith #2, Pope Hats #2 and Ghostbusters #1. Sharayah Read on Beyond Wonderland #1.

* Bleeding Cool caught that editor Janelle Asselin is moving from DC to Disney. PW reports at length about Betsy Mitchell's departure from Del Rey.

* not comics: I have no idea where this link in my bookmarks to a comics sans t-shirt came from.

* finally, Kevin Czap on the completeness of James Kochalka's art.
 
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