Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Brandon Graham accuses the site Newsarama of cutting a roundtable interview to exclude criticism of the Catwoman comic book while leaving in some criticism of Rob Liefeld. It's brutally difficult to figure out exactly why some stuff gets cut and other stuff doesn't, but it has to be frustrating to be cut at all for something like that: he runs the excised material.

* BK Munn on Raw Power. Johanna Draper Carlson on various mainstream comic books. Brian Cronin on Prophet #21. Christopher Allen on Prophet #21. Fletcher Arnett on The Liberty Files. Kristian Williams on Alan Moore: Conversations.

* I have to imagine Lynda Barry would be an ideal university artist-in-residence. I can't even fathom what that would be like -- I don't think I even saw a single comic book from September 1987 to June 1991.

* Johanna Draper Carlson catches someone's suggestion that if there were more good comics stores there'd be less on-line sharing. That doesn't seem to me a contentious point; there probably would be. There's no reason to think the practice would go away, though. In general, the comics market left itself open to piracy in ways that include the abandonment of a serious commitment to geographical coverage starting in the distributor wars.

* speaking of Draper Carlson, she looks at the recent attack piece on comics shops that's been a heavy item of discussion in certain comics circles in terms of the publisher leaving itself open to such attacks by having a bunch of undeniably skeevy comic books. She also points out a pretty icky use of co-op dollars in an advertisement seemingly designed to insult people as well as get them into a shop.

* Graeme McMillan notices a drop in page count on forthcoming Marvel collections, but is reminded that this is because the page count of the comic books has been dropped.

* if you've ever heard heterosexual male superhero fans claim that the male figure is as objectified in comics as the female form and wondered what people that actually want to see those figures think as opposed to those that just want such portrayals to exist so they can win an argument, well, here you go.

* that next Raina Telgemeier book is going to sell a billion copies.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco works through the "why" of the new Peanuts comic book.

* I'm not sure I know exactly what's going on in this strange, elseworlds-type blog post about Dave Sim.

* Jeffrey Renaud talks to Rob Liefeld.

* finally, check out this lovely image for sale from Nicolas de Crécy.
 
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