Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Colleen Doran posts a link to a resource concerning health insurance possibilities for freelancers. "Freelancers without steady income or employee benefits packages need to be scrupulous about their health care plans." Yes, we do.

* Dylan Horrocks is making prints now. Or he has been for a while and I just noticed.

* sometimes it's nice to read about Kickstarter campaigns where you don't know the creators involved, and you're just hearing about work that's going to get out there from someone who really want to see it done.

* Mike Kelley, RIP.

* Philip Shropshire on The Nightly News #1. Tucker Stone on a lot of comic books. Greg McElhatton on Prince Valiant Vol. 4. Grant Goggans on Superman: Panic In The Sky. Rob Clough on a bunch of mini-comics. Bart Croonenborghs on When David Lost His Voice.

* that is one bad joke. Still got a smile out of me, though. This made me chuckle.

* Brigid Alverson pulls out a major, still-active dilemma for a lot of comics publishers that depend on the Direct Market system -- agents within the system not only may choose not to carry a comic in which a fan might be interested, they are sometimes reluctant, ignorant of the work, or generally unable to get it to that potential customer. I've been in stores the last few years where I couldn't get certain Marvel comics and there was no desire from the store clerk to try and get them for me. The non-comics retailers in my small town seem infinitely more willing to work with me when there's something I want that they don't have.

* happy birthday to Image Comics, which turned twenty yesterday. You can argue whether or not they've always been a beneficial entity, both in terms of the work they've facilitated and the way they've conducted their business within the industry. Still, after yesterday's big comic book publishing news story, they look like a model of sanity and self-actualization, and I certainly think they've been an overwhelmingly positive force for a number of creators.

* Albert Ching talks to Mark Waid.

* hey, here's some Dean Mullaney shelf porn.

* Ben Morse picks a bunch of forthcoming mainstream comic book covers that he likes. I like a pair of those quite a bit -- the more stylized ones.

* someone out there -- I think probably Robot 6 -- caught this massive, general update post from Kate Beaton post-release of her Hark! A Vagrant book. It includes word that she's using a Tumblr account now for some material not directly related to new cartoon work.

* Eric Stephenson talks about Image's latest series of comics advertisements.

* I'm all for creators expressing political opinions through their work, but talking about that work in the same, boring, reduced way that all politics get talked about right now seems incredibly dull and limited to me.

* Archie Andrews' recent career as an imaginary groom is kind of weird, if you stop and think about it.

* a second issue of the Justice League series will ship late. The thing that's distressing about this isn't that it will enrage fans or sell poorly (enraged fans aren't a worry for companies like DC; the comic will sell like gangbusters). What bothers is that there won't be consequences, and the benefits for publishing on time are the kind of thing that are subtle and develop over time. So it seems like a step back from the total commitment mostly likely needed to see any real benefit.

* finally, J. Caleb Mozzocco caught news of a name change that I totally missed. Holy moly.
 
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