Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Ping has been resurrected. That looks like quite the array of nominated titles.

* Bob Temuka takes a look at Grant Morrison's recent Batman work given such factors as the line-wide re-launch and how they might -- or might not -- have an effect on the comics we're seeing.

* D+Q lists its more recent books and links up the honors each one received in 2011. That's a lot of linking.

* Michael Cavna does that thing I like where he runs around and picks his favorites from a bunch of cartoons on the same subject. The subject this time: Tim Tebow.

* Marc Mason on pitching and writing a Red Sonja comic book.

* a person named Joey talks to Rob Liefeld. Paul Gravett talks to Zeina Abirached. Alex Dueben talks to Michel Gagné, Max Allan Collins and Trina Robbins.

* a pretty good outing from retailer/industry advocate Brian Hibbs at his regular column. I imagine it helps he's shooting at the biggest fish in the modest barrel that is North American comic books as a publishing enterprise: Marvel's largely insane approach to the book trade. I would disagree with Hibbs in two ways: 1) I would maintain that Marvel seems to lack perennials because it never orients itself that way (they don't have the big-hitters DC has, but they have plenty of second-tier players, for sure) and 2) I think a rational policy for collections, starting with the identification of such core books, would benefit Marvel in all channels, not just direct market retail. Update: Hibbs wrote in to complain that I didn't cover the material in the same column about creators and self-publishing nurturing a relationship with stores, and you can hit the original link for that if that stuff excites you and the Marvel stuff doesn't; I thought that stuff was vaguely insulting in that "you people aren't doing enough to make me feel special" way that retailers sometimes have about them -- it should be more important that Ed Brubaker makes great comics in an ethical fashion that people want than he "has a retailer's back" or whatever -- but more importantly it was obvious, and by itself would have made for a non-memorable, every-other-weekday post on the old Warren Ellis forum.

* a few Happy New Year images from various European cartoonists can be found here.

* mainstream comics sales analysis in terms of liberalism vs. a dearth of ideas.

* Don MacPherson on various titles. Todd Klein on Aquaman #3. Frank Santoro on How To Be An Artist.

* this is apparently the Shit Comic Book Nerds Say. I'm too old for that video, so I keep passing out every time I try to watch it. Sounds promising, though.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco takes a look at Batman-related title proliferation by going back to a time when a new Batman title was a big deal just for the thought of it.

* not comics: K. Thor Jensen looks at the worst comic book tattoos.

* finally, Jack Kerouac made comics.
 
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