Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this post about the HarperCollins changes story breaking on Twitter reminds me of the ridiculous competitions ten years ago to see who could get whatever they heard on the phone or from e-mail up on some message board or Usenet group so that the poster could claim they broke the story. I can't imagine on any planet where unless you, a friend or a family member is involved you're not better off waiting for a more substantial version of what's going on.

* go to Jeet Heer's site for correspondence from a young John Updike to a Milton Caniff at the height of his powers; stay a while to stare at the slightly scary photo of Joan Crawford and the great cartoonist. This Caniff art has nothing to do with anything, but it's pretty!

* congratulations to Graeme McMillan on becoming a US citizen.

* this article from James Sime about comics as a way to make friends is interesting in that I and most of the people I know that read comics had almost or literally no friends with whom they shared that particular interest until entering the field in some capacity. Maybe they had a one friend or more likely a sibling. But for the most part, it was a solitary pursuit. I mean, I had plenty of friends that read the latest Nexus or Love and Rockets or Life In Hell book if it happened to be sitting out, but none that went to comics the same way I did.

* see what David P. Welsh is reading.

* I think this article on comic book and cinema is nice and all, but I figure it's probably more about the ability of movies to do this kind of spectacle now and the fact that they've made money.

* note to people e-mailing me: when Whitney Matheson wonders after how much comic there is in the New York Comic-Con, I don't think you can dismiss it as grouchy art comics festival lovers wanting a show they'll never have or that they already get someplace else. As I said before, although I'll have to live twenty more lifetimes before I can even begin to understand the costume impulse, I like big, pop culture-focused comics shows, too -- it's just not what some folks thought they might get. Hey, maybe those folks were just being naive.

* speaking of Reed Exhibition shows, premier book publishing event Book Expo America has announced it will stop moving around and be in New York for a while and that it will move back to mid-week. Staying in New York seems smart to me. I don't know what I think about the shift back in the work week. I assume they know what they're doing, but if their goal is increased publicity it seems to me the press (especially book press) may be less able to take mid-week work days off. I suppose what they're talking about is facilitating flashier, high-profile, mainstream press rather than a surge in all the press.

* finally, it seems to me that articles like this one at Wizard, where the writers dig into some Batman plot point of which I'm blissfully unaware, don't really pop up all that frequently anymore. I'm probably wrong about that.
 
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