Comics News Story Update Bonanza

* Berke Breathed's contribution to an episode of America's Most Wanted has steamrolled from a mention here and there into the cartoonist-related feature article of the day.

* This PDF preview of James Sturm's America: God, Gold and Golems, in support of the book due in May, and this comics-format interview by Mike Russell with Brendan Douglas Jones of Breakfast of the Gods, in support of the current on-line strip, together beg the question: why in these graphic novel-happy times has no one ever reprinted Sturm's The Cereal Killings?

* Various political/media agencies continue to debate the question over whether Doonesbury's recent portrayal of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper will have any effect at all on conservative voters, and if so, what that effect might be. On the one hand, it's bad to give media figures a hook to talk about why your candidate of choice might suck; on the other, conservative voters likely to back Romney either ignore Garry Trudeau's strip or hold it in such contempt that being a target of its criticism is a badge of honor. There's a collision of ideas there that's really compelling, up to and including Trudeau's status as an unimpeachably liberal media source that may give him more currency in such attacks/defenses than his strip has traction with readers.

* In these 300 movie interest-heavy times, Dave Gibbons pops into Warren Ellis' The Engine to give news of specific interest to comics fans: he's working on a wrap-up to the Martha Washington saga on which he collaborated with Frank Miller. That will be a stand-alone story followed by a major collection.

* Bryan Munn analyzes news from earlier this week that French-language comics giant Glenat is setting up a publishing house in Montreal.

* Heidi MacDonald reports that superhero message boards are bristling with speculation at to why DC seems to be doing super-crappy, in part egged on by analysis run on her site. The thought that DC is doing slightly crummier than usual in terms of the Direct Market shouldn't surprise anyone who recalls that while the market is primed for mega-events, no one's been reliably able to transfer audience excitement from such events into regular titles for more than a couple of issues, if that. And that's where DC is right now. Exacerbating this is their choice to work with some folks on top books who aren't going to keep a rigorous, regular schedule. Given all that, some months are bound to look relatively awful.
 
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