Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Michael Dooley takes a look at the unsavory aspects of Thomas Nast's career, spurred on by a recent call from New Jersey politicians to deny Nast a place in some sort of Jersey hall of fame.

* Gavin Lees talks to Tom Gauld. Tom Devlin talks about Tom Gauld. Daniel McCloskey talks to Jim Rugg. James Romberger talks to Sammy Harkham.

* Steve Rude has apparently finished the pencil art on the new Nexus story. Hey, that's nice.

* not comics: I'm bookmarking this much linked-to article about newspapers and changing revenue models for later, more focused consumption, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go right ahead and start your reading of it if you're so inclined. My problem with a lot of these kinds of pieces -- and I have no idea if this applies here based on my initial, super-cursory read -- is that I don't always think that something going out of favor automatically means it's going to fall the rest of the way out of favor. Media overlap, they don't exterminate each other; otherwise we wouldn't have radio, or books, or theater. I also still hold out a bit of hope that someone out there in newspapers is going to unlock how to replicate on-line the service aspect that newspapers used to offer their readers -- the stuff that Shirky seems to suggest gave newspapers a mass audience. In fact, I'm not sure why that hasn't been done yet. Did people try and did that maybe just not take?

* I always love Todd Klein's logo studies. Here's a three-parter on Steven Bové.

* you can send Keith Knight to New Orleans.

* I missed this Craig Thompson holiday image.

* Drew Weing enthuses over the French edition of Set To Sea.

* I'm a bit unclear as to why this is a story. There's been a significant strain of self-publishing and DIY and creator-to-customer outreach on several levels of comics-making for at least a quarter century. The on-line component of it has been around for years now, too. In fact, this site is a one-man (well, technically two men with different time commitments and an occasional, part-time Canadian academic/expert on Euro-Comics -- but mostly one-man), self-directed effort that came about because I couldn't find a publisher that would return a single one of my phone calls or letters, let alone go into business with me. Maybe there will be an increase in the kind of models we'll see (as Warren Ellis points out) and/or the number of participants (as Dean Haspiel suggests), but they'll be working out of a tradition that's goes way beyond the admirable Louis CK. It's the rest of the world that's catching up.

* John Porcellino and friends continue to walk around New York.

* Andi Watson puts hands -- puts hand? -- on his next book.

* Ryan K. Lindsay on Peanuts #1. Robert Stanley Martin on American Flagg!: Lustbusters. Todd Klein on Green Lantern Corps #3, Dark Horse Presents #4 and Kirby: Genesis #4. Sean Gaffney on Oresama Teacher Vol. 6. Grant Goggans on The Book Of Human Insects. Greg McElhatton on Memorial #1. J. Caleb Mozzocco on a bunch of picture books. Alan David Doane on Peanuts #1. Andrew Shuping on Mouse Guard Fall 1152. Bob Temuka on Criminal.

* Sean Collins presents a history of Fantagraphics.

* David Brothers takes a look at a couple of pages of One Piece. Maybe the biggest difference between people that write about comics that are older than 40 years old and those that write about comics that happen to be younger than 40 is that the younger group has an ease with manga that most of the older crew can only pretend to have.

* love that Dirty Wash.

* finally, Chris Schweizer is beginning to draw characters from the Alatriste novels.
 
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