Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Tom Toles on bloggingheads.tv (thanks, David Weman)

* Andy Burns of Biff Bam Pop visits Wizard Entertainment's Toronto Comic Con. His observations tend towards what I was seeing in most fan photos of the event, especially the Friday of the three-day show:

I arrived at the Direct Energy Centre on Friday night at around 6 pm, six hours after the doors had opened. I walked in with my mouth agape. The floor was virtually barren. The logical part of me thought that this made sense. A bad location. A ridiculous start time. Little in the way of compelling programming. What could anybody expect? Had the proper thought been put into the event, the doors would have opened at 4 or 5 pm, and stayed open until 9. I think that more people would have likely arrived and your dealers and celebs wouldn't have been sitting around all day dealing with sparse crowds."

Yikes. I've been pretty hard on the show, but in the con's defense, it looks like it was only Friday that was ridiculously empty, at least one photo has surfaced that indicates more than a few hundred people, secondary estimations were in the 3000 range rather than the 20,000 range, and they've changed next year's time to better engage that reality.

* speaking of Toronto, Jamie Coville sent along some pictures of his own, here. Walter Dickinson sent in this YouTube video. And that's about enough from that show.

* not comics: if I were in New York, I'd go see this. Review here.

* not comics: remember that movie that was going to be made about the Center For Cartoon Studies? According to an e-mail I received, I guess they're trying to get some money raised through Kickstarter.com to facilitate that project moving forward. This site isn't the church bulletin board, and I still claim if I start listing individual fund-raisers for projects in and out of comics except in special newsworthy cases I will quickly go mad, but I bet you could find it if you wanted to give them some money.

* speaking of one of those special cases, this weekend is do-or-die time for Ted Rall's much publicized attempt to raise money for an Afghanistan project. I would guess at this point it'll come off, and I was guessing the opposite a couple of weeks ago, so good for Ted.

* not comics: when people write in to have me take letters they wrote me off the site I'm happy to do so, but what always strikes me as odd is that any creator thinks I want to have a personal dialogue with them whether I love their work or don't like it at all. That sounds mean, I know, but I swear it's not intended that way. It's just that I don't write a review for a creator, I write it for everyone but the creator, so any exchange that takes place where those people can't see it doesn't work for me.

* hey, I didn't mean anything nasty or confrontational or even to make some sort of oblique comment on the act of artistic referencing when I pointed out that whatever character that is on the cover of Uncanny X-Men #522 looks like alt-comics superstar Phoebe Gloeckner. I don't care about any of that stuff; I just thought it looked a lot like Phoebe and that made me laugh. I mean, you have to admit: she does sort of draw way too well to be homo sapien.

* oh, my goodness: Charles Burns/Gary Panter collaborate on a poster.

* finally, I've fallen behind on the letterhead links Devlin Thompson has been sending in. Here are letterheads belong at one time or another to Trina Robbins, Jim Davis, Walter Lantz and EC Comics. Thompson also sent in this link to a letter from Shel Dorf to Julie Schwartz.
 
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