Random Comics New Story Round-Up

* when I first did this blog I liked to link to a kind of article called the "Local Cartoonist Profile." The Wenatchee World's profile of Clint Hollingsworth is a near-perfect example of the form.

* a half-dozen of you e-mailed me this flattering but odd article on Love and Rockets. As has probably been pointed out to death by now, it's odd in that 1) the book is now a yearly and has never been a monthly even at its most frequent, and 2) I can't imagine a better gateway than the paperback books that Fantagraphics has released the last few years. They're cheap, there's a lot of material even in the early books, and they're gorgeous-looking. (If someone just wants a sampler, issue #26 of the first series features Gilbert's Frida story and Jaime working four stories in four slightly different styles. It's a great loaner.)

* here's a nice piece on Mark Alan Stamaty's now nearly all-the-way-forgotten MacDoodle Street.

* not comics: an honest-to-god amusing post about celebrity sightings at CCI. (via)

* Chris Butcher's two posts about CCI are fun, too, but they're a little misguided from my perspective and in a couple of ways touched on in the comments threads I think they launch from faulty presumptions. In general, I feel there's nothing stopping comics as a collective whole from making a better comics con experience out of San Diego right now, utilizing a lot of tools just sitting there, so of course spending imaginary money is going to yield some pretty amazing imaginary results. I'd also rather see companies and individuals focus on the other 51 weeks of the year with more ferocity and creativity and devotion towards sustainable growth as opposed to spending too much more energy and time on the peak experience that is CCI.

* Daredevil hates windows.

* Publishers Weekly is apparently for sale.

* finally, I'm quite fond of this idea for TCJ #300. With perhaps one exception on the list of interviews in the linked-to post, I'm looking forward to reading the final result.
 
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