Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the artist Stuart Immonen places two quotes next to one another in a way that kind of sums up the divided opinions a lot of folks have about comic book retailers.

* the critic Tim Hodler takes another pass at Shaun Tan's The Arrival and the notion how its potential target audience of children may or may not affect how we should look at it.

* a history of the at-time quite distressing visual representation of Chop-Chop allows Dr. K a chance to muse on stereotypical imagery in comic books through the years. Here is a thoughtful article on a variation of the same topic: how editorial cartoonists must avoid stereotypical female or ethnic imagery in this year presidential race; even better, Pam Platt shows her work.

* Calvin Reid takes a look at Thomas Nelson's plans to publish graphic novels, and if you can make it through the self-serving quote in paragraph two without puking in your mouth a little bit, the way the books break down proves to be pretty interesting. Looks like RealBuzz Studios is a big winner in these plans.

* in discussing last Sunday's cartoon protest, Glenn Jeffers at the Chicago Tribune talks a bit about how the paper selects its comic strip and mentions something I hadn't thought of before: the papers that needed to hear the protest the most wouldn't have heard it because a) they don't run any of these comics, and b) they certainly don't run enough so that the point sinks in. The newspaper industry magazine Editor & Publisher takes their own look at Sunday's protest regarding how the comics by black cartoonists or those featuring characters of color are perceived and purchased.

* the cartoonist Gene Yang writes about his experience in Angouleme, mentioning the elaborate sketches artists do in books during signing as a metaphor for the show's focus on comics art.

* not comics: Marvel's planned MMO game is a no-go, this article says. This is worth noting because Marvel's surge this decade was not only just because of the movies but also because of their savvy in signing various licensing deals of a much higher class than they used to be able to sign. If these deals start to peter out without anything beneficial happening, that might be something to watch in terms of the company's health down the line.

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* no one works the traditional comics publicity machine as effectively as the writer Mark Millar. This Wizard interview also contains some honest to goodness publishing news, primarily the status of his forthcoming 1985, perhaps the nuclear bomb of nostalgia comics, which at one point was going to be a photo comic.

* cartoonist and former pop entertainment company executive Larry Marder weighs in with his first contribution to Jeff Smith's blog-o-rama on 1990s's self-publishing, with a slight history lesson and then one of those weird corporate flow charts that always seems odd when applied to comics. Also: Joshua Smeaton.
 
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