Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the blog at The Stranger notes that while the Seattle Times may not be quite as troubled as its Emerald City rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it just might enter into Chapter 11 bankruptcy at some point this year. I don't think anyone goes into Chapter 11 without the thought of surviving it and pressing forward, but it shows you how tenuous a lot of papers are out there, and how non-transferable a lot of the ad interest would be to the Times if the P-I is shuttered.

* you should check out Chris Mautner's interview with Mark Siegel and stick around for the comments thread. I have to say, I'm surprised that anyone would think of Three Shadows as something other than a book for young readers. I think it has something to offer older readers, but I always saw it as a classic kids' story. This may speak to Eddie Campbell's point about the growing tendency to orient stuff towards a younger readership than any analysis of a single publisher ever could. Also, we find out the DM does roughly 1/3 of First Second's business.

* not comics: business closes because owner sick of morons.

* Alan Gardner at The Daily Cartoonist has opened up his blog for posts from the community of people that read the site.

* the recent spate of Obama appearances in comics may not be on the sturdiest legal ground -- it looks like Marvel has disclaimered itself far enough away from its "we're real/DC is not" stance for some ribbing to be justified.

* here's a few objections from Tim Broderick to statements made by an anonymous industry person on this site yesterday. I got a few letters from people castigating me for running it and attacking the content of the article. As for the publishing choice, I remain happy with my decision to run it. As for the disagreements, I have to be honest with you: if I get something about site content that says "not for publication" and it's not from a lawyer, a current advertiser or a close friend, I'm 90 percent likely to delete it without even reading it.

* not comics: I'm not sure why I failed to post this list of E&P's top news stories for the year 2008, but there it is. Anyone who's been reading this blog even halfway sober -- which is more than half of you, I'm certain -- will be able to guess the #1 story.

* finally, comics blogging godfather Neilalien presents the 02008 Neilalien awards. If you don't know the focus of the site, trust me: you'll pick up on it.
 
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