Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I keep on forgetting to post this: Marc Weidenbaum has parted ways with Viz, and with him goes their plans for an original content line, at least for the time being. Weidenbaum has always struck me as a smart guy with a strong sense of what's excellent in comics and why, so no matter what happened that led to the departure I would consider this an overall loss for comics.

* great news: D&Q has copies of almost-certain book of the year candidate A Drifting Life, and it looks pretty darn gorgeous.

* also really good news: details via interview on Yen Press' acquisition of Yotsuba&!. They'll do the remaining volumes (which I believe to be #s 6-8) and may look into re-doing the earlier volumes either by acquiring the existing English translations from ADV or, if I'm reading the interview correctly, doing another one of their own.

* David Brothers talks about Jack Kirby's use of diverse characters, and how the Captain America/Falcon friendship in the sometimes-maligned "Mad Bomb"-era Captain America felt like an actual friendship between peers instead of a superhero/sidekick situation or an icon/acolyte deal.

* not comics: it's like this blog post on the peak aesthetic eras for all the major sports was written for me. Or by me. I try to explain to people that the NFL in the 1960s and the NBA in the 1970s were absolutely superior in terms of the experience involved and the level of game play as you got to see it unfold in front of you, and it's nice to read someone agree with me. I'd probably disagree most extensively with his college basketball analysis, because I think the Golden Age is actually 1976-1985, with the Big Ten anchoring the first part of that run and the Big East anchoring the second part. Just look at some of those Final Four teams from the early '80s sometime. It's ridiculous.

* feel better, Etta Hulme.

* finally, although I understand the inherent difficulty of linking sales, there are a number of works being offered through Fantagraphics at discounted prices that you'll likely never see again. The two that jump out at me are Paul Ollswang's Doofer: Pathway to McEarth and Gerald Jablonski's Empty Skull Comics Volume One, two of my favorite comics publications ever and almost ruthlessly unmarketable in a modern sense.
 
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