Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the forthcoming biography of Charles Schulz, Schulz and Peanuts, continues to be a leading entertainment feature piece. This article, for instance, spent yesterday on the front page of msn.com -- a hugely trafficked portal. Dave Astor at Editor & Publisher takes a look at the story.

* Dirk Deppey points to this commentary by T Campbell on both the Zuda Comics contracts and his take on the weight of opinion in the webcomics community regarding same. Deppey makes some succinct points of his own regarding the nature of the contract.

* Newsarama reports on that dream rarity in comics: a Direct Market retailer with the apparent cash reserves to buy a copy of Detective Comics #27 that ended up in their store.

* the cour d'appel de Bruxelles says that painter Ole Ahlberg can continue to use imagery from Herge in his satirical paintings. The Herge estate had been joined by folks representing the painter Magritte's work to challenge the Ahlberg's employment.

* the awards season in the French-language comics market seems highly refined and established in a specific way the American awards en masse never will be, so it might come as a surprise to hear of a prize for female BD creators and realize that there may not have been an award of that kind before now.

* the publishing enterprise Les Humanoides Associes will have its books marketed and I think maybe distributed by the gigantic, collaborative entity DelSol for the conceivable future.

* Editor & Publisher notes the second anniversary of invaluable Alan Gardner's Daily Cartoonist site, and Gardner's post about his site's latest birthday and the most popular posts of the last two years. Congratulations to Alan.

* nobody at all notes the third anniversary today of the Comics Reporter site. To be honest, I wouldn't have either except that last piece made me go and look it up. I have no idea what my most popular post was, but I suspect from e-mail commentary that I do well with a) Muhammed and b) any story with boobies. In fact, if some enterprising European artist out there would just draw some boobies on Muhammed, I'm pretty sure we could raise our advertising rates. Since we don't say it often enough, our thanks to the advertisers for their support; Bart, David, Whit, Gil, Eric, Sam, Darwyn and Andrew for their contributions; and every single reader for the gift of their interest and attention.
 
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