Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* our favorite mainstream prose books imprint First Second announces its fifth anniversary publishing schedule, for 2011. Congratulations to the publisher, congratulations to Team First Second, congratulations to their creators, and I'll have way more commentary about the books themselves in the next "Bundled" column.

* speaking of books coming out this year, Craig Thompson's long-anticipated Habibi has a publishing date: September 20.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco shares some thoughts about Justice League: Cry For Justice. Cry For Justice is one of those comics that you look back on 20 years later and go "whoa" because it's so odd, grotesque and kind of compulsively entertaining for its weirdness, except its particular brand of strangeness is so potent you realize what you're holding in your hand immediately, not just years later.

* go, look: an Incredible Change-Bots exclusive over at Comics Alliance.

* if I were in Kentucky, I'd sure go stare at some original Herblocks.

* the cartoonist Michael Oeming talks about one of the late, great Will Eisner's most recognizable visual flourishes, and why he uses it.

* that's gotta hurt.

* in case I forget to mention this elsewhere: the Tobin/Coover effort Gingerbread Girl will apparently be serialized on-line before its print publication later this year.

* the cartoonist and artist Dean Haspiel writes an open letter to his fellow creators. The takeaway seems to be to give greater consideration to owning your own property giving the tectonic shift in the publishing landscape right now, which I'd consider pretty good advice.

* Wolverine got really weird in the '90s. It's like watching a montage of Fonzie from the last two seasons of Happy Days.

* I'd never thought that anyone would have a hard time reading Legion Of Super-Heroes as a kid because of their being too complicated, as back in the late '70s/early '80s resurgence the oblique narrative strategies made up pretty much the best thing about the title. I frequently had no idea what was going on in some of the early Giffen relaunch comics, but that's what I liked best about it. Not ever reader is me or my friends, thank God.

* you have to love the comics Internet at least a little bit when it yields up things like an Art Spiegelman contribution to CARToons.

* finally, congratulations to Collective Comics Library on their 300th podcast. Their guest is Charles Pelto, whose company has published a whole bunch of archival material.
 
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