November 4, 2011
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Tony Millionaire
adds a coda to what is one of the greatest cartoonist stories of all time: how he helped contribute to the 1986 bombing of Libya. It's good news.
* congratulations to Chester Brown, whose
Louis Riel was voted into the top ten of the Canada Reads promotion.
*
D+Q provides notes from Kate Beaton's triumphant-sounding tour.
* David Brothers
goes after the recent letter from the Belgian legal adviser on whether or not
Tintin Au Congo is racist.
* Chris Mautner talks to
Kevin Huizenga. JK Parkin talks to
Ian Harker. Ron Richards talks to
Joe Keatinge. Albert Ching talks to
James Asmus.
* I liked
this drawing by Roman Muradov and
this drawing by Mark Kalesniko.
* Evan Dorkin's
Milk And Cheese hardcover
will be released earlier than previously planned.
* First Second
is having a fifth anniversary party. That's nice.
* Chris Butcher
writes on the non-superhero market. The one thing I always say about selling things that aren't superheroes is that it seems to me over the long term that a greater percentage of the diverse comics shops have survived and a greater percentage of the monomaniacal superhero shops have failed -- not just the crappy versions of the latter, but the good ones, too. It also occurs to me that one thing that people used to hate on with the alt-publishers is a lot better these days: they're forced to hit deadlines because of their bookstore distribution arrangements. That doesn't mean everyone can sell such books or should be expected to -- people should sell what they want to sell, not what I want them to sell -- but I think there's an argument to be made for books like that on their own merits as opposed to how the act of supporting them is frequently cast (by people not Chris Butcher, mind you) as an act of noble charity or an obligation to the art form.
* Garrett Martin, Hillary Brown and Sean Edgar on
a bunch of different comics. Rob Clough on
gag comics from CCS. J. Caleb Mozzocco on
a bunch of different comics. Johanna Draper Carlson on
Lily Renee, Escape Artist.
* Tulsa resident James Vance
writes about David Simpson, the
Tulsa World (where he worked when Simpson was let go) and halls of fame.
*
Jeff Kinney is going on tour.
*
this contest amuses me.
* the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com has posted a series of lists ranking various property categories according to how much they make in all sales channels. That may sound such a depressing way of looking at things to some of you that you just started crying onto your keyboard, and I get it, but I thought another group of folks out there might enjoy seeing those lists:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
* finally, Peter David
voices his appreciation for those that sign their real names on the Internet. Holy crap, people are mean to Peter David.
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