Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* please take some time to check out the press release information for a benefit auction that will benefit CAPS, Ralph Reese and Russ Heath.

* the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com has a short post up on graphic novel Bookscan numbers, which are surprisingly manga-light. Well, surprising at first glance, but understandable at full read-through.

* I know almost nothing about French-language webcomics beyond Trondheim's Les Petits Riens and a couple of other high-profile examples. This article seems like it may be more of a grind against the Joe Shuster awards than a proper survey article, but I'm thinking it may also provide information about some French-language web stuff out there.

*One Piece Vol. 59 has an initial print run order of 3.2 million copies. Imagine what they could squeeze from the market if they renumbered it as a #1!

* go, bookmark: one of CR's favorite writers about comics, Charles Hatfield, has launched a site in support of his upcoming superhero symposium.

* not comics: congratulations to the makers of the Jeff Smith documentary The Cartoonist on their emmy.

* I'm not sure that I knew there was a Peanuts Memorial Orgy, although now that I've been made aware of it this morning through multiple e-mails, I can sort of see why. It lacks the skill and the awe-inspiring context of Wood's much more famous Disney piece.

* comics from another world, in a sense.

* finally, Heidi MacDonald points out in a reading of an option-related press release both that there hasn't been a film made (yet) from one of those "comic book properties" from companies that seem to be interested in publishing comics book more in theory than in practice, and why those companies may not care that this hasn't happened yet (option money spends like movie money). It's a good set of points to make generally, although I get enough of those Radical comics in the mail that I'm not sure I'd be comfortable saying they're the same kind of company as a Platinum, say, whose actual comics are few and far between.
 
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