Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this isn't exactly comics, but a 25 percent loss between similar quarters for a big publisher like Harper Collins is really easy, look up and take notice news, I'd think.

* because Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac ran as a single-publication strip for a long while before national syndication, it has already reached the five year mark.

* not comics: my brother and I spent ten minutes debating whether or not there was any sarcastic element at all to this mind-boggling feature news story. Also, I would have lost any bet that involved Candace Bushnell ever casually employing the word "appurtenances," so that's good to know. (via Gil)

* the cartoonist and former P-I employee Steve Greenberg talks about the sale of his former employer. He kind of lets slip that he expects the paper will not be sold and come back as a leaner, on-line operation. That's what I hear, too. That could be fascinating. The first is that despite the experience of some P-I staff doing an on-line newspaper during a strike a few years back, it's hard for me to imagine getting a lean on-line operation out of newspaper operation that's shedding cash. It'd be like expecting a the crew and cast of the next Harry Potter movie to suddenly reorient themselves to a version for the stage. It's sort of the same, but it's not. The outlays and expectations are so freaking different for an on-line publication.

* I probably should have noted this earlier, but Sam Humphries being let go from his position at MySpace.com puts the future of the comics promotions he spearheaded into doubt. I'm surprised by what seems to me a low friends figure, although I think I'd looked at some of those previews without being a friend of that part of the site. MySpace.com looks like the Betamax of social networking sites right now, although the one thing it seems to do well is promote media, so I don't know that I totally understand this.

* the cartoonist, publisher, musician and I guess teacher Zak Sally remembers Lux Interior with a short essay and a cartoon. Sally posts about four times a year, so this is noticeable in and of itself.

* finally, the to-be-published covers of D&Q's 2009 FCBD effort did end up about as cute as you'd imagine.
 
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