Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I have no idea what this financing announcement really means and I suspect I'm not going to make a judgment on how it works through the information provided as I don't do very well processing the abstract into the real with new consumer technology. But it sounds like what usually happens with new, competing technology -- there will be a lot of money spent.

* R. Fiore says several smart things in a to-the-point review of the new Rip Kirby collection.

* Pierre Couperie, RIP. I will try to have an obituary up either January 11 or sometime shortly after. When I say that I just mean I want to write a proper obituary when the format here changes back to normal, not that it will be a major exposé or anything. Also, Lamar Sparkman, RIP.

* does anyone out there know anything about Charles Allen? I haven't gone looking yet, but nothing occurred to me off the top of my head.

* Sean T. Collins makes the case through Shannon O'Leary that the biggest story of last year was Diamond raising its sales minimums. I'm not sure I totally stand with O'Leary's specific assertions -- the situation was already so bad regarding the carrying and sales of those comics that I have a hard time believing that they stopped being carried just as a surge for demand began to flower -- but that such restrictions calcified an already cancerous mindset regarding the values of diversity and authority which in many ways distinguished the comic shop at its inception, of this I have little doubt.

* finally, this review of the seventh volume of Yotsuba&! has the advantage of offering up several panels and pages from the series. I think if you look at the pages, it should give you at least some idea of the title's appeal -- that's a really fun character.
 
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