Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to Jeff Lemire for going so far in the Canada Reads contest, and leaving the stage with class.

* Steve Bissette would like you to know that this iconic piece of 1980s comics art is still stolen, and that he's not willing to to accept any statue of limitations.

* Julia Wertz is running pages from her recent Drinking At The Movies as a sales inducement.

* Isotope Comics celebrates the failure of others, but in a funny, charming way.

* David Brothers walks the potential consumer -- you and me -- through the digital strategies employed by Marvel Comics right now and tells us what they offer and what they mean. I've been tempted to try that $60/random old comics plan just because that would give me comics to read when I'm up at 3:40 AM on a Sunday morning, but your mileage may vary. I would prefer not to own comic books if I could help it, so I'm going to be a good customer for these efforts as they continue to improve.

* how come none of the discussions I've read about attractive people that did comics has ever included Matt Baker?

* not comics: I also noticed Dum Dum Dugan in that Captain America movie trailer, but more exciting to fanboy me was a glimpse of what might have been that Sleeper component robot from that insane run of Kirby 1960s Captain America shorts.

* I can't imagine there's anything on the entire Internet for your downaload and listen-to pleasure that's going to be more interesting than this interview with the great Al Columbia.

* Jackie Estrada wrote in to note 1) that the photo of Alan Moore and Jack Kirby together reproduced here was her photo, and 2) that in answer to my wondering out loud over how many photos of those two together there could be, that another photo of Moore and Kirby taken near that same moment has been very well traveled, even appearing in that new Taschen DC book. Thanks, Jackie.

* the retailer and Mt. Rushmore comics blogger Mike Sterling talks about covers -- which ones fans are asking after and which one they aren't.

* Jonathan Hill has put out a call for art donations to support the Washington School for the Deaf.

* finally, check out this Dan Zettwoch-designed soda machine. Why wouldn't every insanely rich person get one of these for their home?
 
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