Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Mark Fiore talks about his Pulitzer win and related issues with Michael Cavna.

* Jeet Heer objects to Lynd Ward being considered on a continuity of cartoonists rather than one that emphasizes woodcut novels more specifically.

* here's a nice, long interview by Jeffery Klaehn of retailer Gail Burt that should be read if you're interested in the opinions and mindset of one of those folks that sells book through the direct market channel. I found a lot of interesting stuff there, just the way Burt see certain things. For instance, I usually ascribe the contribution of the Direct Market vis-a-vis comic books for older readers to the non-returnability of the Direct Market, which allowed smaller publishers with a range of interest to enter the field without having the gigantic capital reserves necessary to routinely take returns. Burt sees it in terms of keeping such titles from a wider marketplace that would have rejected them.

* Sean Kleefeld meditates on another super-rare comic book find.

* the man at the crossroads is also a man of mystery, at least when it comes to his age, but in addition to those listed in the usual happy-birthday secton of this blog's morning roll-out, Paul Gravett celebrates his birthday today.

* not comics: a recently released survey of those under 24 years of age suggests that the media consumption habits of young people come with a significant portion of capriciousness.

* Johanna Draper Carlson uses a Boom! press release that actually provides sales number to muse on the number of copies necessary to hit certain industry sweet spots for which kind of player.

* nice catch by Brigid Alverson: one of those questionnaires featuring Bryan Lee O'Malley that seems a lot more completely answered than those kind of things tend to be.

* Matt Seneca uses a much-better-than-usual example to make a point that's been batted around for years that the 1970s were an important time for comics because of that decades reinvention of comics for more sophisticated readers through its then genre-soaked present: a Ben Katchor strip for Heavy Metal. Heck, you might just want to go look at that strip.

* if you're looking around for pretty comics at which one may stare, you could do much worse than Jaime Hernandez drawing Silver Age Marvel Comics babe The Enchantress.

* Alan David Doane drives our attention to this talk from Tim Hodler about basic strategies for reproducing comics art.

* not comics: what the movie version of Captain America will look like, in his costume and with his mask off. I also like how the cover insinuates Peter Jackson looks really terrible now.

* Ivan Brunetti covers The New Yorker.

* not comics: a post at Robot 6 reminds that there's still a few days to buy horror-related art by Johnny Ryan from a recent show.

* finally, I have no idea how an article like this springs into being, but I enjoyed reading about 10+ hotel rooms decorated with comics-related art, and I can't imagine most folks not at least enjoying a peek at the pictures. Heck, I enjoyed the article even though I'm pretty sure that if I rolled into a hotel room decorated with comics art I'd take one look around and burst into tears.
 
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