Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to Doug Bratton and Mell Scalzi, the newly-named "museum manager/director of development" and "registrar," respectively at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.

* here's the Angouleme day #4 array of photos, commentary and video from Team D+Q. I think those posts have captured a bit of the overwhelming feeling that such a massive show must engender in even the hardened comics veteran. That's John Pham in the photo, by the way. Who doesn't like John Pham?

* I wasn't aware that Steve Ditko drew Get Smart comics.

* a scratch and sniff cover for Chew is a really clever idea, but one has to hope it doesn't catch on.

* not comics: I'm sure there's more to this story than initially reported -- well, I hope -- but for some reason I found it super-depressing. I can't be the only person in the last 24 months to mention to a peer that I was jealous of their long vacation only to be told it was actually an unpaid furlough.

* a discussion of teaser campaigns as marketing. I imagine they are very, very intermittently successful even by the broadest possible measure. At one point this year I imagined I would have liked them as a kid -- I liked the Amazing Heroes Preview Specials -- but later on the year I was just as convinced they would have felt manipulative and slightly unfair to me at that age.

* at this rate, the 100th volume of One Piece will crack the world in two.

* on second thought, I'm glad I didn't think of following Marvel writers' twitter accounts during the just-completed writers' retreat, because someone else did it for me and I didn't have to sort any of them. Liked reading them, though.

* not comics: you can buy Al Hirschfeld's pink townhouse for a little over $5 million. If that's out of your price range, the sort-of famous apartment above Fantagraphics is available for rent at something I'm betting is less than the payments on a $5 million mortgage.

* not comics: Dan Nadel remembers a visit to Providence. I'll disagree with him that 2003 was a long time ago, but I like the photos.

* finally, Sean T. Collins uncovers a huge treasure trove of analysis and book-building information from Matt Madden and Jessica Abel about their last Best American Comics collection. Bookmark that one for sure.
 
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