Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* missed it: Marvel releases a trailer for a forthcoming Wolverine-focused X-Men cartoon, complete with songs by the Foo Fighters. Problem: it looks like nobody told the Foo Fighters.

* speaking of Marvel, perhaps the funniest piece of art published by that company in the last 36 months is up for sale on eBay. Everyone is MODOK!

* the second of Larry Marder's contributions to Jeff Smith's series of guest blog posts on 1990s self-publishing suggests that the group's embrace of the trade paperback form, the example of self-publishing as an option to creators, and how these two things have become part of the small press understanding of the comics world are among that time's most important legacies. There's also a half-hint of a social component to these kinds of things, if only in how it's been supplanted by the Internet.

* has portraying someone as a monkey ever been a good idea?

* Sean Kleefeld compares Jack Kirby's version of a Fantastic Four comics story recently restored and released as Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure with a version that Stan Lee refurbished and put to use in what became Fantastic Four #108 and suggests that this shows off some of Lee's skills as a judge of what works and what doesn't on the comics page.

* the great Forbidden Planet International Blog features an interview with a group of small press creators who are manning a table at the Camden market on the weekends to sell their books.

* the period during which writer Alan David Doane is collecting prize-eligible surveys regarding individual experiences in Direct Market stores will continue through the weekend, but that's all.

* man, is that a group of heavy hitters in the birthdays today or what?

* the collection of Steve Gerber memorials continues. A couple of today's compelling additions are a remembrance by fellow iconic 1970s comics writer Don McGregor and an obituary in the LA Times.

* I quite like this cover to the Spanish Edition of Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks.

* one of the things that's come out of posting links to various Steve Gerber tributes this week is that I've begun to realize just how many people and sites out there are devoted to writing about comics. I'm usually a little skeptical of blogs until I see if they're blogging at those early posting rates six months later, and the focus of a lot of the more formal sites seems redundant and uninteresting given my particular tastes. Anyway, despite a post there on Wednesday, albeit the first one in over a month, Brett Warnock heard that the site Comics Alliance may soon go away. As reported earlier, Comic World News is calling it quits, and I'm going to spend part of this weekend moving that site's David P. Welsh over to this site to augment CR's manga coverage. Also, the great alt-comics linking and events site Egon Labs recently went dark after a lack of posts for months preceding that. So despite or maybe because of the entry of more and more people into the writing about comics market, it looks like there's still a lot of movement and change to come.

* a new awards program

* the folks at Fantagraphics archives Dan Clowes' Modern Cartoonist, and Mike Baehr depresses everyone by mentioning that booklet is now 11 years old.

* two museum closures, one temporary and permanent: MoCCA (the temporary one) and the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy museum in Woodstock, Illinois (the permanent one). The latter news comes in an item about Gould's daughter Jean Gould O'Connell receiving an Edgar nomination for a recent biography of her father.
 
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