Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist has a significant update on Susie Cagle.

* Carolyn Castiglia profiles Lauren Weinstein. Ryan K. Lindsay talks to Brian Wood. Someone at The Believer talks to Jim Woodring. Kiel Phegley talks to Jeffrey Brown.

* congratulations to Paul Hornschemeier on his graphic novel residency with the Columbus Museum Of Art and the Thurber House.

* El Santo on Prince Valiant. Rob Vollmar on Lucille. Matt Seneca on Sediment. Brian Hibbs on the latest pair of big team offerings from the big two mainstream publishers. Johanna Draper Carlson on a few books from her slush pile. Greg McElhatton on Tale Of Sand. Don MacPherson on Little Nothings Vol. 4.

* that's some cover.

* I'm not sure that I outright recommended this much-discussed mini-essay by Image's Eric Stephenson about the short-term, gimmicky mind-set of the major two mainstream publishers, but it's worth your time if you haven't caught up to it yet and you have an interest in that part of the comics field. I think noting Marvel's scramble to maintain market share in light of the New 52 is a call that everyone should have shared, and to use that as a wider indictment as to how these companies operate is a useful line of inquiry. I like it when figures like Stephenson speak their mind, whether or not it opens them up to a charge of self-interest in making the statements they're making.

* this Warren Ellis interview about moon colonies, Newt Gingrich and science fiction generally made me laugh a few times.

* speaking of Ellis, I'm very, very, very late to his posting of this, but it's funny.

* glad to learn I'm not the only one to notice that Sean Phillips is likely a member of the undead. He looks twenty years younger than he should.

* not comics: I thought very, very odd this NYT piece on Barnes & Noble's uphill struggle against the forces of Amazon.com. It's ostensibly intended as a positive article, I think, but the picture it painted for me was that of a largely doomed company trying to take the fight to a battlefield for which it's undermanned and ill-suited.

* I have no idea whose studio this is that ended up as a link in my bookmarks, but it's a nice-looking place. I'd like to draw something there, and I don't draw.

* finally, a while back Robot 6 pulls publicity stills from one of the odder -- right up there with the proposed Sub-Mariner show from a bit earlier -- potential TV shows in superhero comics history. I used to think this is why they moved Daredevil to San Francisco for a while there in the early- to mid-1970s, but I was later told that is not the case.
 
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