Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I had fun last night appearing on Fanboy Radio. For some reason I was super-paranoid that I was going to curse, which made me watch what I said a little bit. Also, it was funny in that while I spend some time in the morning writing about comics I don't have many friends with whom I talk about geek stuff, so I might have seemed a little too excited to sound off on some of those topics! My thanks to Scott and the gang for having me on, and for the nice words in their intro.

* this may be the most entertaining article to surface over the weekend, how longtime Judge Dredd writer Alan Grant surveyed his 1980s science fiction work and found that a lot of it has become true.

* it's also hard to go wrong with a Steve Duin profile of Colleen Coover, well-illustrated.

* or a profile of Lew Sayre Schwartz by Eddie Campbell. This is a strong day in general.

* like this: the writer and critic Jeet Here wrote in to call attention to this post and its subsequent support pages over on Michael Barrier's super-popular site. It compare a breakdowns script for a 1949 Porky Pig comic book to the final product. Barrier also has some observations on the comic coming at it from an animation standpoint. I don't see a date on the essay, but I sure haven't seen it before.

* I'm not sure how I missed it, but Soleil and Marvel have signed an agreement by which Marvel will release several graphic novels into the American book market. This make sense in the way that Soleil is a big mainstream publisher I believe best known for its fantasy series and an approach to illustration and emphasis on figure drawing that should logically appeal to Marvel's core customer. Marvel finding material to introduce to the bookstore shelves makes a certain amount of sense as well. This might cause some trepidation in the way that North American audiences have almost never had an appetite for works from the French mainstream, let alone one that goes deep into anyone's catalog. It's almost to the point with these kinds of deals where even the fans are less "Wow, new graphic novels for me to buy!" than they are "Wow, new graphic novels for me to buy five years from now when they cost a dollar from Abebooks.com."

* Editor & Publisher previews the upcoming Anne Mergen exhibit at OSU. Mergen was the only female editorial cartoonist working in the US when she began working in 1933, and she enjoyed a 26-year career. It may just be my imagination, but it seems that OSU has been doing an admirable job putting its exhibit and curating spotlight onto forgotten or under-appreciated female cartoonists, which is a great thing. The Mergen exhibit opens Friday.

* not comics: they change comic book plots in adapting them to film in Asia, too.

* go, read: Evan Dorkin looks at some drawings in a housecleaning and ruminates on the DC rule against letting folks write and draw anything in their comics.

* speaking of strong days, the "go, look" section of this blog update, which will roll out soon after this post and remain placed above it in a spatial sense, has to be the best collection of things to look at we've had up here so far this year. So if by any chance you scroll past that section, please don't today!

* I'm told a great portion of this Murs video takes place at Golden Apple.
 
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