Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* DC Comics has delayed its relaunched Batwoman comic until April. The stop-and-start release schedule on that series through its JH Williams period is pretty baffling to me, both in the "I can't quite follow its history" way and the "I'm not sure why they keep doing that" way. It's one of those things that if it doesn't suffer more in the marketplace for these moves, that's probably on the marketplace. I don't mean that as a shot at any creators; creators should take all the time they need to make stuff they want and can afford to. It's just weird to see this kind of scheduling flounce-about in the modern marketplace -- as opposed to the option-light market of 1974, say.

* missed it: you know, I just realized I mentioned a Ruben Bolling comic praised by Roger Ebert but I didn't link to the actual comic. Here is that comic. In this post, Bolling wonders out loud if there's something special about everyone praising this particular strip.

* the writer Jason Aaron on juggling being a husband, father and comics creator.

* the writer Matthew Brady has completed his journey through the first volume of the alternative manga anthology AX.

* are you looking for a job in comics? Chris Arrant has a list for you.

* nice catch by Andy Khouri at Comics Alliance: Marvel is apparently using URL's in the place of its old asterisk system. Longtime Marvel Comics readers will know what I mean.

* this Joe Ollmann panel from his latest made me laugh.

* over at First Second's on-line empire Gina Gagliano writes up a list of magical teenagers in comic books. Weren't the Legion of Superheroes pretty much the first group of characters in this particular comics canon? They're not technically very magical, though. I'm also surprised not to see Leave It To Chance, although I'm of that age of comics person that always thinks in terms of books from the late 1990s.

* not comics: Frank Santoro's art show tonight previewed.

* the Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson talks about editing the great Lorenzo Mattotti's Stigamata for North American release. That is a beautiful-looking book. Thompson says Mattotti is working on something humongous that we may have to wait to see. I like looking at everything Mattotti does.

* finally, for your bookmarking and reading pleasure, here's Hooded Utilitarian's list of best pieces of comics criticism from 2010. Here's Johanna Draper Carlson talking about participating as a judge. Perhaps best of all is Tim Hodler's spare-no-one piece at Comics Comics on his thoughts regarding his votes and those of others'.
 
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