Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Wizard/Shamus/comic con/whatever entity has a three-day show planned for Fall 2010 in New Jersey. While at first glance this would seem to fall into the group's current strategy of scheduling more modest shows sprinkled throughout the convention calendar, a three-day show following the Big Apple/NYCC two-fer seems insane to most of the people to whom I've spoken, and myself as well. The numbers involved in doing a show of this size must be better than we thought.

* Jeet Heer profiles Gahan Wilson.

* speaking of Heer, he's re-done that excellent post about Samuel Delany visiting an early-'80s comics convention and moderating a Stan Lee v. Harlan Ellison panel to make it text rather than scans.

* the cartoonist Shaenon Garrity wants to lighten her load original art-wise before a big move and you can be the beneficiary.

* Chris Staros talks about Top Shelf's recent capitalization deal.

* the historian, curator and general source of comics knowledge Paul Gravett has released a list of his favorite manga for 2009. His choices are:

1. GoGo Monster, Taiyo Matsumoto
2. A Distant Neighborhood, Vols. 1-2, Jiro Taniguchi
3. Children Of The Sea, Daisuke Igarashi
4. Pluto, Naoki Urasawa
5. 20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa
6. A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
7. Moyasimon: Tales Of Agriculture, Masayuki Ishikawa
8. Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu Vol. 1, Junko Mizuno
9. Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, Mase Motoro
10. Orange, Benjamin
11. The Box Man, Imiri Sakabashira
12. Red Snow, Susmu Katsumata
13. Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka
14. Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa
15. Yotsuba&!, Kiyohiko Azuma
16. Akira Vol. 1, Katsuhiro Otomo
17. Ghost In The Shell Vol. 1, Shirow Masamune
18. Dosei-Jidai, Kazuo Koike

Gravett is one of the best writers about comics, so his descriptions of each choice are of course well-worth reading. Please use the above link.

* finally, Dustin Harbin presents his favorite joke. Mine as a kid were a tie between "Fred Asparagus" and "That's God; he just thinks he's Bobby Knight."
 
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