Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this article in the Chicago Reader refers to articles and opinions that have been heavily linked-to here in the past few weeks, and the upshot that alt-weekly comics are doomed should also be familiar. A point I hadn't seen made elsewhere is that papers are saving so little money by doing this that it's amazing they've bothered making the cuts.

* I'm enjoying these new Darryl Cunningham pages.

* I can't remember who sent me the link, but this dive into the particulars of Top Shelf's translation of the adaptation AX is quite fun.

* this is a very, very sizable interview with Garen Ewing.

* I knew I liked that David Welsh guy. He agrees with me that Steve Gerber is the best candidate for the Mad Ideas School of Comics Writing progenitor.

* finally, one of Walter Isaacson's friends needs to tackle him and sit on him until the publicity cycle passes for his new, awful article on how to save newspapers. As Bill Randall suggests, Isaacson's gut-wrenchingly horrible as an advocate for newspapers, the kind of person that through a general disconnect with the specifics of his subject matter makes the situation he describes seem 10 billion times more concretely damning than if he'd never entered the discussion. Not only are micropayment plans not really on any serious person's table as a mechanism that would save newspapers, the vague suggestion of the same was kicked to the curb a decade ago. It makes Isaacson sound desperate in exactly the way that Randall says he does, and makes the print magazine that bought the article seem like it's an out of touch dinosaur, too. I do think we may see some creative re-examination of old models in the next half-decade, but that specific one is not up to the task of saving the newspapers. Not at all. And we are so far beyond noodling around vague solutions at this point it's not funny.
 
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