November 30, 2011
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* here's a bit of good news I initially missed: Frank Santoro's Fall correspondence course is going well enough
he's considering running another set of classes beginning in March 2012. If you're interested, you should bookmark or maybe get in touch.
* the well-established, veteran editorial cartoonist
Mike Keefe talks to Daryl Cagle about his recent decision to take a buyout offered to him by the
Denver Post. The good news is that this fit right into Keefe's plans for semi-retirement; the bad news is that any connection that's severed between a major newspaper and a popular cartoonist these days is cause for concern about the long-range future of that profession as we've come to know and value it over the last several decades. The strange news is that Keefe is the current Pulitzer Prize winner, which isn't the time you ever think of someone changing their employment status. I think Keefe is right to suggest that print media was slow in reacting to the rise of digital media. My additional suspicion is that the business was in a really bad position when it started to get punched in the nuts a few years back. For one thing, I think the easy and reliable profits that those enterprises kept bringing in kept newsrooms from being as ruthlessly efficient as possible in terms of staffing even as technology really cut back on some time considerations in terms of the nuts and bolts of newspaper reporting.
* via Stefan Dinter comes word of
an audio version of Ana-Marie Jung's recent presentation at the University of Portland. Speaking of audio presentations, Sarah Morean alerts us to
a bunch of interviews related to the Minneapolis Indie Xpo held much earlier this month. Seriously, that seems a long time ago, which is weird given how quickly the weeks rattle by anymore.
* Rodrigo Baeza alerts us to comics-makers
that may be owned foreign royalties. I don't have any way to confirm that, so please tread carefully. On the other hand: potential foreign royalties.
* I believe I was one of a few comics-related folks that received a note over the weekend from Jaynelle Rude, Steve Rude's wife, about a point of clarification in their public statements as to what Steve did
the night he was arrested. She wrote to
CR:
I want to clarify something for anyone who thought Steve was throwing rocks at the dogs. Steve tossed rocks at our side wall (we don't have wood fences here in AZ, everything is bricks or rocks). He has noticed in the past that when he opens and closes his studio window (which faces their yard) the dogs will stop barking for a minute or two). The dogs were in the backyard on Halloween and being allowed to bark nonstop. After about 15 minutes of nonstop barking he decided to try and distract them.
Steve loves dogs and I would hate for anyone to think he was throwing rocks at the dogs! Barking dogs is a problem with the owners, not the dogs.
We haven't been following the news (been overwhelmed and overworked). Please let everyone know that Steve would never harm an animal of any kind. He wanted to cry last year when the neighbors had a bee problem and the guy came out and killed instead of relocated all of them.
For what it's worth, I thought the nature of what Rude did and that it wasn't throwing rocks at dogs was clear from the start to everyone except in a couple of sites on the Internet where this was initially misreported and perhaps a place or two where a fan or commenter misread what was actually written. But it's always good to have a clarification.
I've read elsewhere that the Rudes won't be saying much for the duration of the legal process, which is completely understandable. I join many of their comics industry friends in wishing a just and speedy outcome in this matter for Steve and Jaynelle. They have always treated me and this site extremely well. This is a good time to pick up
some art from the illustrator if you're so inclined.
* finally, Brad Mackay on the masterwork of comics-maker/logging industry veteran the late Bus Griffiths,
Now You're Logging.
posted 12:05 am PST |
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