Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* longtime Marvel editor Tom Breevort writes about emotional truth in mainstream comic books. I'm sure it's intended for all comic books, and that the lessons apply, but the fact that he's conceiving of this notion from a vantage point deep within that part of the comics industry makes it interesting to me.

* the cartoonist Dash Shaw's excellent creator's perspective on the Angouleme Festival just past deserves its own shout-out separate from the site's collective memory. Plus he's the first person I've read that went in and checked on the One Piece exhibit.

* speaking of Angouleme, the French-language comics news clearinghouse ActuaBD.com catches a jubilant Baru just after the formal announcement that he won the Grand Prix and will serve as the next festival's president. Baru promises a rock-and-roll 38th festival and makes a funny joke that the award will allow him to live one more year despite constant thoughts of suicide since Nicolas Sarkozy's election.

* what my nightmares look like.

* does anyone else think it's terribly funny that the ultimate danger in Robert Kirkman's Invincible universe is a bunch of super-powered dickweeds bearing mustaches? That Kirkman is able to infuse his comic with humor on that level without infuriating the kinds of fans that take their superheroes deathly seriously is as much a testament to his success with that title as anything else he's ever done.

* going against conventional wisdom yet again, the suddenly comics-championing Chicago Tribune is increasing the size of some of its comics. The bad news is that they're dumping six, including two I thought were generally popular: Get Fuzzy and Lio.

* the cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley is one of many artists participating in an auction on behalf of Giant Robot. I don't know exactly what Giant Robot needs, but we should give it to them. Wait, here that is.

* here's a nice process post on getting a cover design together for Sarah Glidden's new graphic novel.

* here's an equally nice and quite massive process post about Todd Klein's new poster project with Mark Buckingham.

* finally, a bit of not comics: via Patrick Rosenkranz comes word that that antique pool cue featuring S. Clay Wilson's art -- the cue I know I've heard about before but can't remember when or where -- is up for sale. To say that's a unique piece is understating things, even if it falls outside the standard purview of this site.
 
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