Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Vera Brosgol has a nice, lengthy post up here answering all the questions she's received about comics as a career.

* not comics: the cartoonist Dustin Harbin plans to review stuff that he encounters this year. All the stuff.

* the writer Paul Tobin expresses his admiration for the comic book character Black Widow.

* Ward Long talks to Vanessa Davis. Tim O'Shea talks to John Jackson Miller. Brian Truitt talks to Brian K. Vaughan. Laura Hudson talks to Chris Onstad. Vaneta Rogers talks to Scott Snyder.

* not comics: a bunch of folks posted yesterday about the Disney/Marvel announcement of details concerning a much-discussed programming bloc featuring Marvel characters, pointing out the obvious: that the purchase of Marvel by Disney was in part for the access to boy-targeted programming on their aggressive plans for original programming-driven cable offerings both in North America and around the world.

* not comics: Gary Groth talks about time spent in the company of the late Christopher Hitchens, and how the writer's legacy as a public intellectual was shaped by celebrity and 9/11. Speaking of Groth, if you've never read his interview with Kevin Eastman, you should bookmark it for later consumption. I don't really understand why it has to be split up, though; it's no longer 1998. But that's an astonishing, crazy interview about an astonishing, crazy enterprise.

* not comics: the coverage of a new edition of the venerable table-top game Dungeons and Dragons will probably yield a lot for writers-about-comics that also have a familiarity with the gaming field. I think industry-wise part of the traditional gaming culture have the same relationship to comics that rap had to rock and roll: a compressed version of the same kinds of events and developments. I do find 1970s gaming culture and its cloth books and college students in various basements a really compelling thing, but not really in relation to comics. I imagine this story will happen to a comics company at some point, too.

* Joe Keatinge writes about the advantage that comics have in the Image line to engage dramatic plot points of the kind that many comics fans like. That reminds me of the point that Tucker Stone made during his holiday interview about the Hellboy/BPRD books at Dark Horse, that they're less encumbered by the needs of servicing the brand.

* this is a nice little post from Guy Delisle: the moments he's seen drawing in Jerusalem and what he was drawing.

* Andrew Wheeler on The Hidden. Doug Zawisza on OMAC #5. James Hunt on Uncanny X-Men #4.

* finally, it's always worth noting anew every now and then how in comic strip the decision to extend familiar brands is looked down upon by the most fervent fans of that form, but in comic books the decision to do new comics with only the limited involvement of its creator -- or no involvement at all -- is usually seen as a savvy business move and is much more welcome creatively by some of the most fervent fans of that form.
 
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