Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Alan Gardner over at Daily Cartoonist has two solid news catches in the editorial/newspaper realm. The award-winning cartoonist David Horsey is moving to the LA Times; Piers Baker's syndicated strip Ollie & Quentin is set to end. Horsey switched his employment from the now-defunct-in-print Seattle Post-Intelligencer to Hearst Newspapers a couple of years ago, so in a way this is less about someone switching papers than someone switching to a newspaper. Sort of. Anyway, Horsey's pretty much the living embodiment of a crowd-pleasing cartoonist, and I'm sure that any newspaper will do well to have him on board. The Baker strip dying, on the other hand, is just too bad; that was a pretty good feature. It had to have been a tough sell, though. I think King Features did right by that one, as much as it's always easy to blame the syndicate when any strip fails to get over.

* congratulations to Chris Pitzer on nine years of publishing at AdHouse Books. He talks about some of the highlights here. The book whose cover image is at left was their first one. Like nearly everything Chris has published, that was an admirable book and it's hard to figure out who would have done it if Chris hadn't. You can't ask for anything more.

* here's an update from Tom Hart dated Sunday, December 18.

* I think if you click this link you get a PDF of the MoCCA Festival 2012 exhibitor application. I can never tell with those fancy, link-laden e-mails.

* by the end of this article, you won't really know if the Marvel All-Ages line is in danger or if it's not, but you'll likely be mad at somebody responsible.

* Paul Gravett profiles the great Joe Sacco. Sam Weber talks to Jillian Tamaki. Tim O'Shea talks to Joe Keatinge. RC Harvey profiles Betty Swords. Corey Kilgannon profiles Irwin Hasen.

* I'm not sure why I've been resisting news of this beer/comics crossover event series.

* via the FPI blog and Bryan Talbot comes word of the short list for the First Graphic Novel award run by Myriad Editions. They are: Adam Blackman & Dylan Shipley (A Rat's Tale), Gareth Brookes (The Black Project), Konstantinos Chrisoulis (Dryland), Hannah Eaton (Naming Monsters), Tom Eglington (Amber Sands), Thom Ferrier (The Enlightenment of Iwan James) and Paula Knight (The Facts of Life). The judging panel is Steve Bell, Hannah Berry, Ed Hillyer, Corinne Pearlman, Ian Rankin and Talbot. The winner will be announced January 21.

* not comics: good for Ben Schwartz.

* I would really like to get my hands on one of these CBLDF mini-comics.

* the blog at D+Q runs an excerpt from Guy Delisle's Pyongyang about the recently deceased Kim Jong-Il. I know that my thoughts went first to Delisle's work when the North Korean leader's passing was announced, although that may be because of my lack of prose reading on the subject.

* young MariNaomi experiences a crisis of faith.

* hey, here's a bunch of original art from people like Brandon Graham and James Stokoe.

* the funniest cartoon in the world.

* Chris Schweizer is drawing images from True Grit. Oliver East drew a birthday card. Andi Watson makes a sketch and make with the links. Amy Reeder draws a Batwoman cover.

* Gary Tyrrell describes a big ol' comics slapfight.

* Michael Buntag on Green Lantern #1-4. Todd Klein on Green Lantern #1 and Legion Of Super-Heroes #1-2. Sean T. Collins on The Man Who Grew His Beard. Greg McElhatton on Punisher #1-6. Rob Clough on Gay Genius. Jeet Heer profiles Hergé.

* this Matt Seneca/Tim Hodler/Jog McCulloch roundtable is really good. Hodler's always worth hearing, and the voice-only platform somewhat surprisingly flatters both Seneca and McCulloch.

* finally, one of the great joys of the comics-related Internet is a new post from Timely/Atlas expert Dr. Michael J. Vassallo: here's one on Joe Simon and Jerry Robinson.
 
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