Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the FPI blog pays tribute to comics industry survivor Tripwire. Serious, I think Hero Illustrated and some form of Amazing Heroes were still being published when Joel Meadows and the gang got started. They have a new issue out for Comic-Con.

* while I am on the floor of Preview Night trying to find a Supernatural bag for a friend of a friend, and likely failing miserably to make this happen, the smart comics people out there will hit the boutique toy section in search of Fort Thunder alumnus, educator and graphic novel maker Brian Ralph's first attempt at a toy. There's a process blog for the toy right here. The funny thing is, Brian doesn't know where it's being sold, so this sort of makes it Con Buried Treasure -- if you ask me.

* Frank Santoro riffs on last week's new comics.

* Jonathan Ross profiles and then interviews Jim Steranko. Apparently, Mr. Steranko only sleeps for two hours a night.

* here's a list of Top Ten Walt Simonson Thor covers.

* another CR favorite in a day full of CR favorites, Darryl Cunningham writes in with this blog post where one of the writers at the Guardian picks favorite medical-related graphic novels. That's a pretty good list.

* here's a discussion between Alex Wood and Robert Crumb that's gone up on The Official R. Crumb Site as part of their plans to provide more content at that resource.

* James Owen draws The Spirit.

* I received a bunch of links from Joe Keatinge: a summer reading list at Neon Monster (illustrated by Marian Churchland), and three reviews/profiles of recent comics material at the same site (Weathercraft, Black Jack, Wilson).

* finally, Timothy Callahan talks about working with non-comics readers on comics and what their impressions are when they dig into this material.
 
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