Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* here's another follow-up article on Sunday's protest strips concerning how comics by or featuring people of color are perceived and purchased. Here's a more general appreciation of the idea of diversity on the comics page.
* I also did an audio interview with Marty Owings at Radio Free Nation on Gerber's passing, if you'd like to listen to it.
* there's a nice article in the PWCW mailer this week about two smaller publishers taking their periodicals to Chinese printers. This is interesting because almost of the Asian printing used to date has been for trade paperback publications. Periodical formats tend not to be done overseas because of the basic timeliness factor compounded by the uncertainty involved in getting each book back and into circulation.
Heidi MacDonald wrote in to say that she wrote the piece and PW dropped her byline and asked if I could add that information to this mention.
* in a sign of the times, the Christian Science Monitoris placing a great emphasis on animation skills in finding a new editorial cartoonist. In what I would like to be a sign of the times, the University of Nebraska newspaper advertises for new editorial cartoonists and provides a nice little case for what such offerings can bring to the newspaper page.
* this article about an exchange of cartoonists between Switzerland and Indian is worth reading if only for the hilarious griping by the Swiss contingent that there are no cafes to draw in.
* a lot of memorial writing about the late creator Steve Gerber hit the Internet yesterday, the vast majority of which can be found in 
