Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* retailer and prominent industry blogger Chris Butcher makes a guest appearance in a Dustin Harbin strip.

* longtime industry watcher and reviewer Don MacPherson puts on the steeltoes and has a go at the planned Wizard/Shamus series of shows. I don't know, I think there's a place for a series of superhero-obsessed minor comics shows in theory, and it's hard to begrudge the group calling them comic cons when the bleed between comics and fantasy media of all kinds seems to matter to almost no one. I do hope that there's severe scrutiny of these shows.

* not comics: above and beyond its comics content, the only thing that's really interesting to me about the Superman movie thing is how confidently movie people seem to be in assigning failure and success to efforts that seem to my eye enormously complex. I thought Superman Returns was a not-good movie, but my hunch is that it was not-good according to a few things in conception (creepy emo Superman; the stalkerish devotion to the original, writing such a dull Lex Luthor) and a bunch of things in execution (casting everyone young, most of the performances, an unsatisfying climax, a Lois Lane that looked like she needed Superman to bring her bowls of soup and a blanket, cold set after cold set, and a deathly pace). It's going to take a bunch of similar things going right to make a good movie, and yet the reporting keeps on suggesting there's a magic bullet out there. I can't imagine a single hire or single approach gets a Superman movie over, not anymore.

* hail to the King.

* here is a massive discussion of Abstract Comics.

* Erik Larsen sounds off about digital comics.

* I thought this note from Bryan Lee O'Malley about his art assistant for the last couple of Scott Pilgrim books was very nice.

* here's a list of fixes/solutions/efforts to make Wordpress more comics friendly. I'm so in need of such of a list I don't even know how to describe one.

* Rob Clough has released his choices for Top 50 of 2009, in two parts. They are:

1. You'll Never Know, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
2. Footnotes In Gaza, Joe Sacco (Metropolitan)
3. 1-800-Mice #3, Matthew Thurber (Picturebox)
4. Cecil And Jordan In New York: Stories, Gabrielle Bell (Drawn &Quarterly)
5. Little Nothings: The Prisoner Syndrome, Lewis Trondheim (NBM)
6. Like A Dog, Zak Sally (Fantagraphics)
7. Map Of My Heart, John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly).
8. The Book Of Genesis Illustrated, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
9. Masterpiece Comics, R.Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)
10. Tales Designed To Thrizzle Vol. 1, Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics)
11. The Tablet strips of Vanessa Davis
13. I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press)
14. Monsters, Ken Dahl (Secret Acres)
15. Sublife #2, John Pham (Fantagraphics)
16. Syncopated, edited by Brendan Burford
17. Ho! , Ivan Brunetti (Fantagraphics)
18. Follow Me, Jesse Moynihan (Bodega)
19. George Sprott, Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
20. Be A Nose! , Art Spiegelman (McSweeney's)
21. AD: New Orleans After The Deluge, Josh Neufeld (Pantheon)
22. The Secret Science Alliance, Eleanor Davis (Bloomsbury)
23. PS Comics, Minty Lewis (Secret Acres)
24. Yearbooks, Nicholas Breutzman (D Cloud)
25. Covered In Confusion, Will Dinski (self-published)
26. The Aviatrix #1, Eric Haven (Buenaventura Press)
27. Ten Thousand Things To Do, Jesse Reklaw (six self-published minicomics)
28. Just So You Know #1, Joey Sayers (self-published)
29. The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972, Charles Schulz (Fantagraphics)
30. Nine Ways To Disappear, Lilli Carré (Little Otsu)
31. Mome Vol. 14, edited by Eric Reynolds & Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
32. The Mourning Star Vol. 2, Kaz Strzepek (Bodega)
33. The Gigantic Robot, Tom Gauld (Buenaventura Press)
34. Injury Comics #3, Ted May, et al. (Buenaventura Press)
35. Likewise, Ariel Schrag (Touchstone Books)
36. Ghost Comics, edited by Ed Choy Moorman
37. Department Of Art #1, Dunja Jankovic (Sparkplug Comic Books)
38. The Bun Field, Amanda Vahamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
39. Uptight #2, Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics)
40. Wizzywig Vol. 2, Ed Piskor (self-published)
41. Rock That Never Sleeps, Juliacks and Olga Volozova (Sparkplug Comic Books)
42. Funny Misshapen Body, Jeffrey Brown (Touchstone Books)
43. Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, Joe Daly (Fantagraphics)
44. Important Comics, Dina Kelberman (self-published)
45.Happy Hooligan Vol. I, Frederick Opper (NBM)
46. Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me, Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics)
47. Dungeon Zenith Vol. 3, Lewis Trondheim, Johan Sfar & Boulet
48. Science Fiction Classics, edited by Tom Pomplun (Eureka Productions)
49. Mineshaft #24, edited by Everett Rand & Gioia Palmieri (self-published)
50. Love And Rockets: New Stories #2, Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)

Clough says he's also done a top 100 for the '00s, which has yet to be scheduled by TCJ.
 
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