Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I know that some people bemoan the attention paid to conventions, but they're a bigger than ever part of the overall comics business landscape. CBR has an informative interview up with the always-helpful David Glanzer on the goings-on with Comic-Con International and the forthcoming WonderCon.

* the Spring's C2E2 comics convention has added Chris Ware and a bunch of other comics dignitaries to its guest list for its inaugural show. Ware rarely does conventions and is a staggering talent and mighty cartooning icon besides, so that's a great get on the part of Reed.

* missed it: Gary Panter In Step-By-Step.

* not comics: I quite like the portrait of President Obama by Steve Brodner accompanying this article. Brodner seems to be having more fun with fundamental shape of the President's head than most artists have. Brodner has a fine blog, if you've never been.

* this post at Kelly Sue DeConnick's Whitechapel forum residency -- basically a sustained opportunity to answer questions from people that post to Warren Elllis' current message board -- gave me a much clearer picture than I've ever had of exactly what the dialogue editors do on manga translations.

* missed it: apparently Ann Nocenti taught a bunch of Haitian filmmakers that have been filming some of the most provocative footage to come out of that wrecked country since the earthquake, and she participated in the significant objects project with a story about a ceramic bear. Surely comics could be putting her to use somehow.

* good luck to Heidi MacDonald in moving her blog The Beat from Publishers Weekly to its own, dedicated site.

* I'm with Todd Klein. My immediate reading pile is Smile, Popeye Vol. 4 and King Aroo. Egad.

* not comics: Bone tattoos.

* the writer Matt Fraction expresses admiration for Jonathan Hickman's work on Fantastic Four. I think the thing I liked most about the few issues of those superhero comics I read is that they seemed to be less about the original 101-issue Lee/Kirby run than they were reminiscent of a demented run of comics from about five years later by Roy Thomas that recast all of the Marvel planet-to-planet mythologies established to date in these crazed, fever-dream terms through which the team fairly ripped issue to issue.

* not comics: the Scott Pilgrim movie has a US release date: August 13, 2010. That could make for a fun San Diego Con.

* finally, Alan David Doane is still looking to sell you some comics to help offset the cost of a family dental emergency.
 
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