Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* The comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has a smart story up about the small press distributor Biblio Distribution being moved from National Book Distribution to BookMasters and becoming part of the latter's AtlasBooks distribution company, to which I can add almost nothing. Among the publishers effected are Exhibit A Press, Knockabout Comics and Fanfare/Ponent Mon.

* Thought Balloonists kicks off its comics reviewing coverage with The Arrival: Charles Hatfield goes first; Craig Fischer replies. With Comics Waiting Room going to a web magazine model, I wonder if there isn't going to be a mini-trend in non-daily updated comics coverage and blogging given the sheer volume of material out there right now.

* Frank Santoro's post about a Marshall Rogers sketch at the Comics Comics blog led to a killer comments thread and another pretty fun follow-up post from Santoro. If nothing else, the Steve Rude/Frank Cho comparison is hilarious.

* Brad Mackay wrote in after reading this contributor's note for Hillary Chute that mentions the Art Spiegelman project Meta Maus. Following what he calls "a bit of googling" he came up with this run-down of Mr. Spiegelman's plans:

A new edition of Art Spiegelman's 1978 anthology, Breakdowns, will be published in Fall 2008; it will include an autobiographical comix-format introduction almost as long as the book itself, entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. Also in the fall of 2008 a new children's book will be published with Toon Books, called Jack and the Box. Additionally, in preparation is a book with a DVD about the making of Maus, entitled Meta Maus.

I don't think any of that is new, but I haven't seen it all in one place in a while, if at all.

* for those of you out there keeping track, Pajamas Media has the count of journalists facing "potential criminal prosecution" related to publication of the Danish Muhammed cartoons as nine in four countries.
 
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