Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* so Diamond's day-early program had 98 percent compliance in its initial stages. That's good news: the third-best news possible. I have to say, though, it kills me that even 10 stores would violate a brand-new policy like that, when not violating the policy and making this work over the long-term is so clearly in the best interests of everyone involved.

* Joe Sacco and Adrian Tomine talked about craft and I missed it until it was e-mailed to me. Thanks, folks.

* WPTZ interviews James Kochalka.

* not comics: the note I received in support of this Kickstarter project hit on something I hadn't yet seen: making the bulk or all or even just a significant amount of one's kickstarter goal on a first day or initial set of days.

* Steve Lieber goes medieval to fix some comics art.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco notes about halfway down this post that a couple of arguably anchor -- at least high-profile -- recently-announced series from DC Comics are already off schedule. That's never a big deal title to title, and the market has kind of processed late titles in a way that none of them are ever that damaging, but the phenomenon over the long term just can't help those kinds of retailers do their jobs and connect with that serial reader in a way those companies want them to.

* that's a very cute cover for Marvel's forthcoming Strange Tales 2 collection.

* not comics: it seems to me that writing for free is allowing someone to exploit you for a reason you think will be beneficial to you long-term. The problem is that you frequently end up way more exploited than you are buoyed by those benefits. Moreover, if you're not giving as much thought as to how you will see a benefit as those doing the exploiting are thinking about how they will benefit from that exploitation and those like it, the chance you're going to be disappointed and frustrated -- in addition to being exploited, you already gave that away -- proves exponentially larger.

* another post on the international scene 2010 from Paul Gravett.

* Frank Santoro continues his long, rambling essays about a recent trip to the west coast by talking about the cartoonists Jon Vermilyea and John Pham in the course of spending some time with them.

* Dan Nadel has posted an early profile of Jim Davis -- early in Davis' solo career doing Garfield, that is.

* finally, this headline made me laugh. Oh, comics.
 
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