Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* as part of Paul Gravett's international round-up of best comics scene to scene, here are Matthias Wivel's choices for the best in Danish Comics, 2009.

* Mike Lynch shares a few graphs of Michael Maslin's forthcoming Peter Arno biography in honor of the very dapper man's birthday.

* the cartoonist Josh Neufeld picks his favorite books of the last decade.

* the writer Kurt Busiek enthuses over a new edition of his The Wizard's Tale.

* a consortium (gaggle? murder? pride?) of critics nominate and name the best critical pieces about comics on-line, 2009. Among the critics cited are Robert Alter, Dirk Deppey, Jog, Tom Crippen and Andrew Rilestone. Bookmarkable links to actual pieces abound. Johanna Draper Carlson wonders after that list's lack of regional and gender diversity.

* wow, those are some nice-looking pages.

* Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer have a bunch of nice-looking stuff up for sale.

* that's a great photo of Dan Clowes, Rick Altergott and I assume Mort Todd. But the idea of a German TV pilot starring Dan Clowes as a teenage rock and roll superhero, alluded to in the comments section, well, that's too good to be true.

* we did something almost exactly like the fourth one down in the 7th grade.

* Brian Fies reports on his cartoonist-in-residence gig at the Schulz museum.

* I tend not to track publishing rumors at the mainstream comic book houses, but Grant Morrison on Wonder Woman probably has to be tried sooner or later, no matter the artist involved. Morrison's more of a takes-his-toys-home-with-him playdate kid, but it's still worth a shot.

* I enjoyed this post from Marc Sobel on old comics he read in 2009. I never think about it this way, but certainly my reading certain runs of old comic books in any calendar year is as big an influence on my overall comics thinking as the way I encounter the new stuff.

* Sandy Bilus has named a top 10 list for 2009. The books selected are:

1. Pluto, Naoki Urasawa
2. Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli
3. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke
4. Gogo Monster, Taiyo Matsumoto
5. Batman and Robin, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
6. Johnny Hiro, Fred Chao
7. Ganges #3, Kevin Huizenga
8. Driven by Lemons, Joshua Cotter
9. Stitches, David Small
10. Britten and Brülightly, Hannah Berry

The list includes explanations for each choice and links to reviews of some of the material, so I hope you'll check it out through that first link.

* finally, J. Caleb Mozzocco analyzes the recent wave of PR on behalf of the forthcoming Brightest Day event series, focusing on what he's able to extract about the rest of Blackest Night and wondering why this doesn't seem to matter to more people.
 
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