Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Superman trials have been delayed until April and June.

* the great Jim Blanchard recreates his cover to Blatch #14, and it's really good-looking.

* the broadcaster Robin McConnell at Inkstuds wants your feedback.

* it looks like Deb Aoki is running the results of her reader-solicited best of the year lists. I'll probably forget to post about them when they're all done, so consider this your only notice and anything else a bonus.

* the cartoonist Kazuo Umezo won that lawsuit about painting his house. That was a big running story for a little while, there. Video available through here.

* I know Brian Fies didn't intend for this post about editing to be seen this way, and the general impulse goes against everything I believe as an editor myself, but my first reaction upon reading the piece was that book publishers are going to have a hard time ever making comics that aren't by Ware, Spiegelman and Satrapi profitable if that many people work on them for that period of time.

* finally, one of the reasons I've found it so depressing when I read about political cartoonists complaining that it's hard to do cartoons about President Obama is that these two well-publicized posts show that it's certainly possible to be funny with the President as a punchline. This makes me wonder after if the middle of political cartooning isn't a bit rigid in what they mean when they make these complaints, and that might contribute to them being vulnerable to obsolescence. I mean, not every cartoonist's relationship to a president has to be Oliphant's to Nixon, does it?
 
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