Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Dustin Harbin interviews David King, one of the most interesting cartoonists out there right now.

* so I guess there's a rumor out there that Marvel will institute a tougher $2.99 price point on its comics. I'm not so interested in the gamesmanship aspect of such an announcement, and in fact I'm doubtful that those moves really work to that end as cleanly and as comprehensively as some believe. However, I've said it multiple times: whatever it takes for the most comic books as possible to be priced at $2.99 rather than $3.99 is an overall good, because raising prices that much jacks up the prices on a weekly purchase by $4 to $7 to $11 or whatever is proportional to the number of comics purchased, and it's the latter purchase point that runs the risk of being rejected, a fitful bleed that weakens that way of selling comics over time in a way that's almost impossible to track.

* the photos uploaded by Peggy Burns and/or Tom Devlin at Drawn And Quarterly from their ongoing trip to Angouleme seem like they'll be about as much fun as promised. There's Rich Tommaso and Ulli Lust, and I don't think I'd write that phrase at any other show. I like how they fully admit they have no idea what they're doing or where they are at times, which is probably how I'd experience 93 percent of such a trip. And my goodness, check out where they're staying.

* I agree with Mark Evanier that a class on comics with Dennis O'Neil might just the thing for many folks out there.

* a post over at Comic Strip Of The Day talks about the utility of those cartoons where Garry Trudeau has a character watching someone on TV, as opposed to a cartoon where that thing is depicted.

* Mick Martin publishes a review seven years in the making.

* the godfather of all comics bloggers NeilAlien walks through the current, mostly-decimated state of the Dr. Strange corner of the Marvel universe. I can't help feeling that despite all these goofy-sounding plotlines that group of characters should have a place in the current comics publishing world. I know he'll be a potentially usable movie character as long as most A-list male stars are over 35 years old. By the way, is that really Dracula? For the first time in my life, I want to kill a vampire.

* Sarah Glidden watercolors.

* Brigid Alverson endorses Paul Gravett's Creators 101 profiles, with one small caveat.

* it's always hard to track running arguments on the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com if you're not there from the beginning, but it seems like there's something of a back and forth going on there about the utility of the retailer advocacy organization ComicsPro: Buddy Saunders, Amanda Emmert, David Loftus, Andy Battaglia, Joe Field, David Gray, Barry Branvold. There are likely more. Basically, it seems as if some non-member retailers are mad that the retailers in the organization have secured some sort of bonus or advantage for its members, which seems to me at the very least the sort of mercenary behavior that said critics use to decide not to join.

* not comics: Forbes profiles Sam Zell.

* Don MacPherson dissects a fan-instigated and professional-approved campaign to get a certain book reprinted. I mention it here because while this kind of thing isn't limited to comics, it may be most effectively done here.

* finally, it's sadder than it is awesome that $40,000 for making a comic about someone is automatically a mockable figure.
 
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