Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the One Book, One Philadelphia program is apparently featuring The Complete Persepolis. That's a good book, and I think the people of that great will enjoy it. I plan to celebrate by re-reading Chicken With Plums while eating a cheesesteak.

* not comics: Martin Scorsese to direct Hugo Cabret?

* Jeet Heer pulls a great excerpt out of the book 1984 with Sam Delany talking about moderating an early 1980s comics convention panel with Stan Lee and Harlan Ellison. Delany nails before anyone else even thought about it what one of the great appeals of conventions was to creators like Delany and his more devoted-to-comics writing brethren. I read that book -- it's really good -- and never thought about pulling that section out.

* count Ruben Bolling among those doing something to raise money for aid to Haiti.

* the rash of post-New Year eBay sales from prominent collectors continues. This time it's Mike Lynch and Steven Thompson. I sympathize; I'm overloaded with stuff right now, too.

* a credit lifeline has been thrown Platinum Comics. Can you imagine what a real comics publisher could do with a $5 million credit line/investment/whatever this thing is?

* this list of potential DC publishers is exactly like my own minus Sam The Eagle, a Wonder Woman robot controlled by rotating Comics Journal messageboard posters, and a newly-constituted Master Blaster consisting of Bill Jemas riding on Jim Shooter's shoulders.

* this may be my favorite old, obscure comic that Mike Sterling's yet uncovered.

* HopeLarson.com has been remodeled.

* not comics: more details on the NYT firewall announcement.

* not comics: Warren Ellis provides figures on his latest on-line sales initiative, this time with a book of columns.

* this post reminds me that Grant Morrison's Crazy Jane was one of the great characters of the last 25 years in mainstream comics and was problematic in like 10,000 ways.

* finally, they're running the old Phil Foglio series Mythadventures as a webcomic now.
 
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