Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the critic Graeme McMillan's take on the final issue of Marvel's latest crossover World War Hulk reads like the sort of baffled reaction that five years from now we may return to for signs as to why comic books have shed readers that much more quickly. Gotta stick the landing.

* I liked this video of Brevity's Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry discussing among other things process.

* just a few days after the release of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, Jess Nevins has another sure to be popular set of annotations for the reference-saturated comics work. I know I'll be spending some time with the book opened in front of the computer screen.

* Speaking of LOEG: TBD, Abhay Khosla questions some of the rhetoric out there suggesting there are no legal risks to publishing the material.

* Dave Roman's "Advice For Building A Career As A Freelance Artist And/Or A Paid Cartoonist" reads as well to me as it does to everyone else.

* a few weeks in, Sean Kleefeld looks at the shadings and discrepancies that can pop up in the various measurements employed at Zuda.com.

* even though part of my brain tells me I probably shouldn't have, I sort of enjoyed Angela Phillips massive media critique that springs from coverage of the Danish Cartoons Controversy. At least the first few graphs. Plus I hadn't heard of this.

* assuming Laura Hudson's report from the "Think Future" panel is representative of the depth of conversation that took place, and I'm sure the editors would pass on it if it weren't representative in that way, seeing as they were right there, her piece at PW underlines the problem with these kinds of panels. John Cunningham at DC says that a generation of readers will go to the screen for their comics just like they do for everything else; Joe Quesada asserts that on-line availability of comics will serve as a feeder system to print. That's at the very least two different parts of the elephant being described, if not an elephant and a rhino. It's fine if there are two diametrically opposed opinions, but it's hard to know how firmly those positions are held let alone their relative strength when they're not set against one another and their backers pressed for details. If a future can sustain both, we probably need to hear that, too. Otherwise, you might as well ask the participants to send their press releases to be read.

* it's a good thing when Steve Duin writes about comics; I'm catching up to this piece a few days too late to spark attendance, but I still liked it.

* you know, I can't remember a retailer piping up on the Marvel on-line initiative before this one. Between this, a future of comics panel that focused a lot on on-line moves and bookstore shelving, and the Love & Rockets announcement they're moving to annual form, this hasn't been the best week for the DM.

* how The Complete Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend was restored.

* Emory University hosts the latest discussion related to the Cartooning For Peace exhibit. Ali Dilem comes across as the most to-the-point person in the room. Again.
 
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