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January 17, 2012


Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to Jennifer de Guzman on her move into a PR and marketing role at Image.

image* Scott Vanderploeg on Captain Easy Vol. 1. Jonathan Yardley on Pogo Vol. 1. Jeet Heer on Nuts. Andy at Grovel on Like A Sniper Lining Up His Shot. Sean Gaffney on Dorohedoro Vol. 5. Grant Goggans on Hey Look!. Johanna Draper Carlson on Sanctuary. Ryan K. Lindsay on Batman #5. Sean T. Collins on Kramers Ergot Vol. 8. Josh Kopin on Fatale #1.

* these are the people that are visiting the Center For Cartoon Studies this year.

* the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund takes notice of the latest brouhaha over a Muhammed-related cartoon being featured on a UK university site and the various organizations that have stood up to back the publication of said cartoon and criticize pressure to take it down.

* that NonNonBa cover sure is something.

* The Weird Girl talks to Esther Pearl Watson.

* the writer Warren Ellis on what a comic script is for. He doesn't mention the part about "score me a position writing for the show Justified" at all, which may confuse some folks.

* Garth Ennis having settled in at Dynamite reminds me of how some sports television personalities have moved from ESPN to positions at the Golf Network and the NFL Network. Sometimes moves like that are perfect for the people involved, and it's only our lingering biases that might make them seem odd in any way.

* Get Your Censor On.

* Bully's post on Martin Luther King, Jr. is still a classic.

* Graeme McMillan looks at competing announcement strategies employed by the two big mainstream comics companies.

* Dave Kiersh has launched a kickstarter campaign for his next book. I'm still not sure how I want to cover these things. I guess it might be worth noting that Kiersh isn't offering any heavy-reward type incentives, which makes this more of a straight-up pre-order deal, with an extra book thrown in as a bonus. I'll figure it out eventually.

* finally, Lauren Davis provides a survey of contemporary, on-line, autobiographical comics here.
 
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