Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Best Comics Of 2009 Meta-List is in, and David Mazzucchelli is apparently poised to hear the lamentation of the women. The top ten, in order: Asterios Polyp, Parker: The Hunter, George Sprott: 1894-1975, Pluto, A Drifting Life, Monsters, Detective Comics, Stitches, Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe and The Book of Genesis Illustrated.

* Mike Sterling finds another book I've never heard of before, a novelty panel-driven book by the late Vaughn Bodé.

* the retailer and industry pundit Brian Hibbs makes a great point here that the Diamond warehouse moving and subsequent dysfunction should be taken into account when trying to figure out why there were fewer comics sold in 2009. I'm slightly conflicted in that Diamond having problems seems to me more a problem of the system than a special circumstance, but it should be noted one way or the other.

* Kim Thompson is a wise and well-spoken man.

* there has to be some sort of joke in a rack of Marvel Comics being wiped out by a flushing toilet, but I can't figure out how to say it.

* the Penny Arcade folks are hiring a designer.

* the great Edward Sorel remembers the just-as-great David Levine.

* not comics: there's an article in the Times about Gilberto Sanchez, the man who uploaded the copy of the movie Wolverine that led to the studios proclaiming it could harm the movie's box office success. It's an interesting piece in that Sanchez never denies wrongdoing, despite the fact that some have done so on his behalf, and that he clearly knew what he was doing was wrong on some level just not the kind of wrong you end up having to fight legally. Also, the notion that was thrown out there initially that Sanchez was being crucified in place of whomever initially stole the print is apparently wrong, that investigation continues, and the notion that his not profiting by the upload would be an automatically strong defense to the point of trumping the charges is also fairly dismantled. The charges could still be dropped, but not for that reason.

* another year, another selection of GLAAD Media Award comics division nominees about as wide-ranging as the distance between the Amazing Adventures and the Amazing Spider-Man parts of a single longbox. Those books are doing a fine thing, though, so good luck all around.

* not comics: I've received a lot of odd e-mail over theyears but the subject header on a recent e-mail -- "Love Boat's Ted Lange Unlocks Magic Basketball in Who Shot Mamba?" -- may be an all-timer. I have no idea what they're trying to sell, but I nearly lost my mind just staring at that one.

* awww...

* finally, Johanna Draper Carlson suggests that a public claim to not reprint a comic should probably mean not reprinting that comic.
 
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