Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Marc Mason dropped a mass e-mail over the weekend to say that he would no longer be continuing in his PR duties on behalf of NBM. Stefan Blitz will handle those duties now. Mason's e-mail said that the reason for his departure from that position is that he's going to graduate school. Good luck to him in that endeavor.

* these close-up scans of Kirby art from 2001 fascinate me.

* comics numbers guru John Jackson Miller gave comics a late holiday gift right before the New Year's weekend -- updates of best-selling, end-of-year-, Direct Market information for the early 1990s. Discussed here. This could add a lot to our understanding of the time period; for example, in his e-mail, Miller suggests that the Heroes World move may have been caused in part by a sharp drop in Marvel market share.

* Alan Gardner digs up a fine Rina Piccolo post about living poor, living comfortably and the freedom to create. He also finds an article about iPad sales for magazines, which apparently sort of suck. I'm not sure who decided they were going to be great, but that never seemed all that likely to me.

* Buzz Dixon offers up his choices for ten funniest dailies from the year 2010.

* CBR talks with a Kickstarter co-founder. That's the site that allows comics artists -- and a ton of other folks in a thousand fields -- to raise money for certain tasks, primarily through incentives. I like the basic idea of Kickstarter, and I'm happy for those that have had success with it, but I think in comics it's pointed out more than anything an almost foundational lack of publishing capital out there even for accomplished projects.

* in praise of D+Q.

* Bill Sienkiewicz on Big Numbers. It's weird that Big Numbers feels less like a tragedy and more like an oddity since time has passed and, I think, that that passed time has been stuffed with equally ambitious and well-executed comics. At the time, stumbling through the tail end of the post-1986 surge of interest, it felt like serious graphic novel crib death.

* the year in piracy.

* occasionally someone will complain that when the press covers a firing that equal time should be given to someone not being fired. I present to you a very nice, person-not-being-fired article.

* a selection of your favorite creators pick their favorite comics and comics news stories. I haven't read it yet, but I bet someone does that thing where they select their own stuff and then go Oh-ho-ho! It's an industry tradition.

* buying Jaime Hernandez.

* at long last Big Wheels gets an easy-to-remember replacement for whenever anyone asks after an arts comics slush-pile find -- Duncan The Wonder Dog was apparently a blind submission.

* finally, Robert Stanley Martin reviews The Carnival.
 
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