Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Borders starts off the year by giving everyone with an interest in the book market as it currently exists a stomachache.

* one news story that passed by quietly over the weekend is that Lucy Caswell officially left her position as the curator at OSU's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum on December 31, and -- barring something weird happening I don't know about -- Jenny Robb has taken over. Congratulations to Caswell on a stupendous run and all support to the highly-qualified, well-regarded Robb.

* congratulations to friend of CR David Welsh on his spiffy new home with Manga Curmudgeon. Everyone interested in manga should bookmark that site immediately.

* Graeme McMillan looks at the "Curse Of The Mutants" storyline that took place in the X-Men comics in 2010. It's a really good piece on a not-exactly-rare phenomenon in mainstream comics when a bigger narrative kind of fails to engage in the same way more successful mega-plotlines might hit with readers. It struck me looking at that picture that there are a lot of X-Men characters right now, and this post at CBR confirms my suspicion.

* this takedown of the silly Superman: Grounded storyline focuses on the defensiveness with which it was presented.

* the winter iteration of Comiket set a turnstile attendance record with over a half-million people -- basically four San Diego Cons. I get a little nervous just hearing about a show that big.

* Jog speaks wise, if you're still looking for some kick-back and enjoy the extended holiday season reading. Also, I fully endorse Dan Nadel's notion that Facebook has become a wonderland of wonderful posts and confessionals by a certain generation of older cartoonists.

* Robert Boyd finishes up his mega-lengthy look at comics he found at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.

* the North American comics industry site of record, Comic Book Resources, names its top stories for 2010. And then it names its best comics.

* I've bookmarked this top 10 tips for webcomics makers, partly for you, partly because I'm thinking of doing one myself.

* I'm always up for a return visit to the Lee/Romita Amazing Spider-Man material. If you ever read those comics again in a sustained way, you'll see how stop-and-start they are -- my hunch is that cut and paste studies of that run flatter it maybe more than devouring a giant tome of that material would -- but when it was locked in it was pretty irresistible entertainment right up through Gerry Conway's run. It was certainly the longest-running, at the very least formidable Marvel comic of that early bunch.

* not comics: whoa, what a story.

* happy, happy: a lot of New Year's-related comics imagery here. Fantagraphics has a sale going on here. Sean Kleefeld reprints a spiffy-looking January 1 cartoon starring the Yellow Kid. The Cool Kids suggest how you might spend your new tubesock full of lunch money.

* that is an awesome outfit.

* finally, review tank Rob Clough looks at the latest issue of 1-800-MICE, one of the odder and more wonderful comics projects going. Michael C. Lorah takes a look at The Playwright, the excellent work drawn by Eddie Campbell and written by lat Friday's Holiday interview subject, Daren White.
 
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