Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it appears as if this year's Angouleme Festival will be graced with the presences of Jean-Jacques Sempé and Robert Crumb.

* longtime writer about comics Charles Hatfield reviews Asterios Polyp for The Comics Journal #300. I'm not exactly sure how that fits into a special issue like that, but maybe there was a regular array of features in that one in addition to the younger/older interviews featured on the cover.

* a few updates on the Kurt Westergaard attack: records indicate a complicated country-to-country history for the suspect; this Time story shows the front of the Westergaard house; Rogers Cadenhead is the first one I've seen to make the obvious babysitter joke in public; the Danish Police have started to gather evidence in their case against the accused; an Islamic conference condemns the attack; the Guardian profiles Westergaard.

* why Charles Addams may not translate into yet another McMusical.

* Ted Rall is trying to raise money via Kickstarter to go back to Afghanistan and I guess do some reporting. This request has the added advantage of being appealing to both Rall's fans and his enemies.

* not comics: John Jakala retires from comics blogging, this time it sounds like for good.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has named their top business news stories for 2009.

* over at Comics Comics, Frank Santoro remembers the devoted Charlton artist, television announcer and z-movie film director Pat Boyette with a great quote from an era in which fan groups apparently had distinctive regional personalities.

* the longtime reviewer Don MacPherson names his 2009 Glass Eye Award winners.

* the strip-focused blogger Alan Gardner caught this so I don't have to: webcomics.com has begun charging for subscriptions.

* even the great Drew Friedman can't avoid running afoul of the occasionally stupid editorial overstep. That's a lovely illustration that got rejected, that's for sure.

* finally, New Jersey retailer Ilan Strasser says the comic book part of the Direct Market is in its death throes. I thought sales were pretty good on the charts, actually, but okay.
 
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