January 21, 2009
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* I just noticed
this summary of the yearly BD market report. I'll wait for Bart Beaty to tell me what it all means, but for now it's enough to notice things like production in the French-language market seeming to be up (again) and translated works rebounding as a market presence.
* the last time I went looking for archived episodes of
Leisure Town, I swear there weren't any. Granted, that question might have been asked a long, long time ago.
There are certainly archives up now. That's a good thing, of course: I think it has a lot more in common with the idiosyncratic and popular webcomics of the present day than many of the significant on-line efforts of its era have in common with their modern equivalents. So while it's definitely not news, there it is.
* I totally missed
this very sad story, as well as
the passing of Ray Yoshida. Since I may or may not take the time to do formal obituaries, I wanted to mention them here.
* the review part of
this article on Emmanuel Guibert's Japonais is little more than a description and calling it beautiful a couple of times, but I'm grateful to learn of its existence.
* some students and other attendees
were apparently upset by a few of Aaron McGruder's statements at a speech he made on campus.
* word's going around that Shel Dorf is still in the ICU and while he can't receive phone calls would love to receive a fax from anyone who knows him and/or wishes him well: that number is 858-939-3272.
* finally, you can usually count on Sean Kleefeld to collect a bunch of historical instance cartoons into one place, and
he did not disappoint yesterday. I also found myself wondering after the reaction of exactly two editorial cartoonists:
Tom Toles and
Pat Oliphant. Neither of those cartoons will go in either cartoonist's hall of fame slideshow (Toles is better
today), but it strikes me that curiosity over how they might approach a specific moment in history is perhaps the best measure for an editorial cartoonist's value.
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