Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com returns to its look at 2008 book sales figures and folds in numbers for kids and young adult titles.
* Jesse Hamm has a nice, short review up regarding the quality of the expensive Jesse Marsh Tarzan volumes. It's the first review I can remember seeing. I always liked the way Marsh's stuff looked.
* jack-of-all-trades and master of several Tom Devlin over at Drawn and Quarterly draws attention to Ron Rege's writings on his latest work.
* the prominent blogger and cartoonist Mike Lynch writes about not letting people use his work without paying him first. A lot of people feel the way Lynch does, they just don't say so out loud for fear of looking ungrateful or out of touch. I think it's totally up to the cartoonist how they approach what they charge and for which pieces and in what context, and no one gets to decide for them.
* finally, I'm not sure how this hero history of Dr. Strange's masked superhero period got into my bookmarks, but it's a cute article. I remember when I was a kid being struck by how horrible it seemed to be to go from not having to wear a mask to wearing one that fits tight over your head. I always hated wearing hats when it was cold out, so I'm sure that played into it.
* Jesse Hamm 
