Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* apparently CBR is doing a series of interviews with former Marvel Editor-In-Chief and current Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada about his time in that office starting here. I'll wait to comment until the end -- if I remember to, which is the problem with multi-part interviews -- but I thought some of you might want to follow those as they're posted.

* the Inkstuds program invites Noah Van Sciver, Zack Soto and Michael DeForge on to talk about the year in comics 2010, in what I'm told is a freewheeling, bordering-on-chaos conversation. They went with an Orc Stain illustration, so I assume that work will be covered.

* in heaven, all the comics-related news stories will be like this.

* so if I'm reading this stuff correctly an on-line retailer made some douche-baggy comments about the shooting of that congresswoman and a number of others in Arizona, and then it looks like that he and maybe some of his customers attempted to defend the comments as a coherent, acceptable world-view instead of the kind of thing the drunk kid that gets beat up a lot at parties says from the backseat of your car as you're driving him home one night. It might be worth pointing out I saw at least one name-known artist saying the exact same thing on Facebook before I guess thinking better of it -- it's gone now -- but digging in on that position is what seems sort of crazy to me.

* the shooting is a tricky subject, which means it's usually worth one's time to check out how the Cagle-assembled cartoonists are handling it. Wow. We are pretty much a nation drunk on seeing everything in us-vs-them political terms, aren't we? This group of cartoons collected by Michael Cavna seems to have a bit more range, although many appear on both.

* in better news, the CBLDF accepted this year's Downs Intellectual Freedom Award, and you and I can read the transcript of their acceptance.

* Paul Gravett reviews 2010. Dave Ferraro provides his top 20 in more standard list form. Ferraro is one of the reviewers out there that reads a really wide range of comics, so his lists are always going to be fairly interesting for that reason alone.

* the retailer Mike Sterling makes a common-sense point at the top of this column that obscuring the title on one comic among many sharing that name is kind of a terrible idea. I agree. I also think simply having that many titles is a long-term worry, but at least be clear with what you're publishing in the short-term.

* not comics: apparently that new TV show Stare At Summer Glau is about superheroes! It doesn't sound very good, but Heroes and that live-action The Incredibles thing have certainly set one low-ass bar. Are you seriously trying to tell me that a Wonder Woman TV show couldn't somehow be more appealing than that line-up of humps?

* not comics: Kathleen David reviews the Broadway show related to comics where only the scenery chewed by Nathan Lane is harmed.

* finally, that glass of Mountain Dew is either half-empty or half-full. I pick half-full.
 
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