October 15, 2007
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
*
Hacker Wars: Revenge of the Swedes
* Thank you to Chris Scales for catching
this Art Spiegelman comment in an on-line forum about the Nate Fisher case.
*
Express took a high-end video camera to the Small Press Expo, and is posting the interview results in a series. Now up are
Paul Karasik of "My book about Fletcher Hanks keeps selling out at every show" fame,
SPX coordinator Karon Flage and
Jeffrey Everett of El Jefe Design.
* Maybe the biggest single venue for print cartoons in North America,
Parade has apparently been adding cartoonists to supplement its traditional Bunny Hoest empire.
*
here's a not-really-comics-but-still story that interests me in that way of not knowing that it went on, it making sense when you do find out about it, and the whole thing being rather slimy in a way that can't be justified by an explanation. If I'm getting it right, the writer Peter David accepted an invitation to a smaller convention, his name was used in advertising the show and I would imagine that logic dictates it was a hook for attracting other guests, and then he was dis-invited when money got tight. The explanation is some sort of "good of the show" nonsense. Some of the related issues fascinate, too, like the suggestion that some convention guests might be seen as more desirable than others because a) they might come bundled in a group, and b) they share money they charge for autographs and the like with the show, which is another two things I didn't know about. Anyway: compelling. Plus, it totally sucks.
* One of Canada's more prominent protest leaders during the Danish Cartoons controversy is
suffering threat of deportation. If nothing else, the description of the life as led is one of those things where most of us will go, "Well, that's certainly outside of my experience."
* A short preview of
The Black Dossier, the next installment in
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series,
is now on-line.
posted 10:14 pm PST |
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