Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist and humorist RK Laxman received the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2007 award last night during a function in New Delhi. His "Common Man" creation was cited in the wire article.

* I received this e-mail yesterday from Patrick Jodoin:

Dear Publisher,

We have been receiving many questions with regards to recent problems at Quebecor World. We wish to inform you that Imprimerie Lebonfon Inc. or Lebonfon Printing is a privately owned company and is completely independent of Quebecor World since March 2006. Our printing and distribution operations are not affected by the current situation at Quebecor World.

If you need more informations or have any questions I can be reached at [number redacted] or at [ditto e-mail]

Thank you.

I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but having to reach out to people to assure them because of someone else's well-publicized financial trauma has to suck.

* in the stuff for free department: Brian Wood is making available Public Domain, the design notebook from his Channel Zero series; Matthias Wivel points out how you can download PDFs of Alberto Castelli's history Eccoci ancora qui.

* the cartoonist Mike Allred owns a spinner rack and has his mail delivered by boat.

* is it my imagination, or is ICv2.com rolling their news stories out instead of loading them all up overnight?

* according to this short piece I totally missed, Disney may go after the artist and magazine responsible for the cover of a satirical magazine cover that makes use of their conception of the Winnie the Pooh characters to make a blunt point about something else altogether. Does that make a difference? It seems to me that you should be allowed to satirize characters like that but it's actually sort of questionable to use the currency of someone else's creation to make a point unrelated to those characters, the same way you should be allowed to blog about a photo in the newspaper, but swiping someone's photo to illustrate your own story about the subject matter is wrong. That's probably just me, though, and that's certainly not a legal opinion for anywhere but nerd court.

* Thought Balloonists digs into Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics but they do so in a way that suggests you still have to.

* the Seattle Times ran a short interview about the Frye Art Museum's hosting of Todd Hignite's R. Crumb exhibit. I think people should make use of the Frye every chance they can and everyone should see as much R. Crumb art as they can, so this works out kind of perfectly.

* the cartoonist Jeff Smith is making his only planned public appearance of the year at Symphony Space in New York on February 10.

* a couple of mentions on Euro-Comics news sites suggest that Casterman has a new site. I'm not familiar with the old one, so I could be totally wrong.

* the writer Calvin Reid takes a brief look at Simon and Schuster's efforts in comics publishing, both stand-alone books and planned comics series. I never know how to feel about stories like that. I'd like to see the Hope Larson book, but the rest of the books leave me cold. The thing is, they're probably supposed to. I'm not a 10-year-old kid with a pass to my school's library choosing a book to take back to class with me. I'm trying to imagine what I would felt about comics adaptations of my favorite prose books growing up, and I'm not sure I would have been all that into them despite my attraction to comics, especially once you removed the relative scarcity that made every comic sort of exciting back in the 1970s.

* if there was ever a story that made me want the entire modern industry to go away and be replaced by the industry circa 1974, warts and all, this is that story.

* the mainstream-focused pop culture commentary empire Wizard promoted longtime employee Joe Yanarella to Senior Vice President -- Operations. Unlike under-the-radar industry buzz that seemed to characterize other recent promotions amidst their Dresden-like pummeling of the company's creative departments (latest to give notice, I hear yet haven't confirmed, is Anime Insider designer Brad Bowersox) as perhaps more cosmetic than substantial or policy-changing, what I'm hearing about this one from a couple of people is that it may be important in terms of expectations regarding the convention side of Wizard's business, which in recent years has managed to accrue negative momentum.
 
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