February 6, 2009
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the retailer Brian Hibbs with
more smart commentary on Diamond's decision to raise its minimums. He's riffing on
this one by Chris Butcher, if you haven't read it yet.
* I found
this deeply disturbing on levels I didn't even know I had.
* although it may get lost in the posts detailing portions of their business seminar at NYCC yesterday, ICv2.com's top properties posts are kind of fun. Here's
one on the most valuable superhero properties;
here's another on a category called "fiction and reality," which strikes me as potentially everything.
* not comics: so
the Watchmen movie opens up one month from today. I think the most fascinating outcome would be for it to be really, really faithful in every way that counts and yet still bombs with no one in a broader-than-comics sense liking it, just because I can't imagine what you'd say about that happening if you believe
Watchmen is the pinnacle of artistic achievement in comics.
* by the way, I want to say for the record it annoys the shit out of me to hear DC executives
bragging about their Watchmen print runs when they've been hiding their print runs on almost everything for years and years and years, for no discernible reason but to be able to press the advantage of not having their crappier sales runs exposed when they get asses kicked by their competition, which is a lot. It would be so wonderful for the comics business if that company would lead the industry and provide real figures. They haven't and they likely won't.
* I can't recall reading too many articles about adjustments at the big mainstream French-language publishers in reaction to the current world economic crisis, but
here's one I think about a popular let go for just that reason.
* speaking of affaires Francais, I would totally go to
this exhibition were I anywhere nearby, but it looks like museum shows in Picardie may have much saltier names than the museum shows in New Mexico. I'm not sure I could ask my Mom if she wanted to go.
* not comics: Dan Nadel
writes about Los Angeles.
* finally, even if I were to work in comics for 200 years, I would likely never understand
international cartoon competitions. They're sort of like what karate competitions are to sports writing: there's a ton of them, no one can figure out which one is more important than the other, and the people that are into them seem really into them.
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