Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Scott Kurtz talks to Michael Cavna about newspaper syndication vs. webcomics models.

* Johanna Draper Carlson reviews the Will Eisner instructional books that WW Norton re-published in 2008: Comics and Sequential Art, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative and Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative. You know, there's an awful lot of Eisner material in circulation right now between DC and Norton, and almost no one talks about them.

* Douglas Wolk interviews the great Kevin O'Neill. I'm not sure exactly how they're putting the whole thing up, but I'll only be linking to it this one time so please bookmark away.

* Todd Klein begins his survey of logos on DC Romance Comics.

* vote early, vote often, vote Snake 'n' Bacon.

* one of the seminal Gary Groth editorials from the late 1980s has been republished at TCJ.com: issue #116's "Black And White And Dead All Over." I think that the black and white explosion and then implosion is in many ways an event in relation to the Direct Market of hobby and comic book stores what Siegel and Shuster signing Superman over to DC was to comic books generally. If you ever hear some of the numbers that that market was able to push through on what kind of titles, you'll spend the next ten minutes shaking your head and wondering what might have happened if the scumbags hadn't shown up.

* Mark Evanier speculates (kind of) on what Jack Kirby might have thought about Captain America vs. the Very Sensitive Tea Party people.

* not comics: over at Daily Cartoonist Alan Gardner picks up on two major hassles awaiting digital tablets in signing up current content providers: 1) publications will not want to price their profitable print editions out of business, 2) they'll want control of subscription information just like they have with the paper product.

* I kind of totally missed this one: Apparently there were complaints that DC wanted to do both of its FCBD offerings at a smaller size, citing that it would be harder to rack and that if you're going to introduce new readers to comics you might as well introduce them to something as close to regular comics as possible. In the end, DC has decided to up the size of the more regular comic-book series lead-in one to normal parameters.

* finally, Ken Parille has links to material concerning the four-cover new New Yorker.
 
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