Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a Wimbledon Green prequel coming out later this year from Seth? Are you kidding me? Really good news.

* speaking of anticipated works, when I saw this photo, I wondered if Craig Thompson hand-delivered all of this art. Then I realized it's all digital at this point, and it's not like they haven't been making reproducible copies of original art for delivery for decades now. Still: potentially enjoyable Fall of 2011.

* the retailer advocacy group ComicsPRO has nominated a slew of industry folks for its Industry Appreciation Award. For the industry award proper: Steve Geppi, Denis Kitchen, Stan Lee, Bill Schanes, Bob Wayne. For the memorial version: Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Julius Schwartz, Phil Seuling. My guess would be Wayne and Sueling, but I'm a terrible guesser. Bios and more information through the link.

* not comics: wow, this is really depressing. My love for reading was nourished on family trips to Chicago in the 1970s, joining my parents while they hit that great city's downtown bookstores. This included one or two idiosyncratic ones within walking distance of the Drake right there on Michigan Avenue (or maybe as far away as Rush Street; my memories conflict). Heck, Marshall Field's even had a pretty good book section. It's hard to believe that there will be no more bookshelves to be walked between by the various customers and tourists working that famous stretch of American retail enterprise.

* fun, fun, interview with Françoise Mouly.

* Comic-Con International has named another round of guests: Sergio Aragonés, Ed Benes, Anina Bennett, Chester Brown, Ernie Chan, Seymour Chwast, Dick DeBartolo, Tony DeZuniga, Eric Drooker, Mark Evanier, Joyce Farmer, Paul Guinan, Joëlle Jones, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Richard A. and Patricia Lupoff, Patrick McDonnell, Grant Morrison, Alex Niño, Steranko, Cameron Stewart and Dave Stewart. That's an intriguing list.

* the cartoonist, writer and arts advocate Gerry Alanguilan pens one of the most thorough personal year-in-review reports I've ever seen. It's good to hear someone out there had a great 2010.

* Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist has been blogging up a storm in the new year. Here's a few of his latest: a Beetle Bailey men's apparel and accessories collection profiled; an interview about Tintin unearthed; a post about self-publishing your own collections discussed.

* these look like a blast.

* PictureBox discusses its books' placement on various top comics of the year lists, comics all worthy of your consideration.

* this weekend sees the first North American comics show of the year of any size or import: the Arizona Comic Con. I think a sizable show in Arizona during the cold months could conceivably have a lot of appeal for a lot of comics people, and certainly that's an underrated region in terms of number of comics fans.

* go, look: a Melvin Monster preview.

* finally, I don't really have anything to say about this that I didn't express last time. I don't really have problems with the strength and provocative nature of the reaction as expressed, either -- in fact, this sort of reaction from a creator in that group seems more appropriate to me than the random fans reacting a tenth as strongly on those creators' collective behalf did. I disagree strongly with the substance of the reaction expressed here, but I can sympathize with its formulation.
 
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