Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jeet Heer, Chris Butcher and Darwyn Cooke -- charter members of Team Comics' Smart, Articulate Dudes Force -- talk to the National Post about the small-c conservative reaction to Essex County in the Canada Reads contest.

* this site hasn't updated in the new year, but the photos of various comics-related programs taking root in Pakistan are pretty amazing.

* Gary Groth and Alan David Doane talk about the big-C Conservative comic strip Obama Nation. While I have problems talking about the strip in relation to the abominable harassment the creators recently received, its quality is certainly a subject worth engaging on its own.

* Mark Evanier on Joanne Siegel.

* not comics: I saved this story about Marvel's attempt to put a Mystery Men title out there and the problems this might cause with Bob Burden's Mysterymen and never got back to it, but the point I wanted to make is that it seems to me that when you look at these companies as intellectual property generators, the viability of packaging parts of that intellectual property for potential consumption on film and television depends greatly on finding some sort of decent, conceptual hook for doing so. When it comes to random older characters, it strikes me there aren't a whole lot of ways to do that.

* this beatdown of a student's paper on Julia Wertz by Julia Wertz made me laugh.

* now that's how you do continuity.

* I believe I may have missed this list of nominees for the first inaugural Stan Lee awards. There might have been some room for a Stan Lee awards program that focused solely on writing, now that I think of it, although I'm sure there will be a lot of hype for program in this form. I also think I never linked to this interview with an anonymous Wizard ex-employee that was posted shortly after the magazine was shuttered. That sounds like it was kind of a crummy place to work; then again, they all sound like crummy places to work. I also skipped over this reaction at the time from the writer Peter David. Oh, and one more awards program nominees list I blew off: the comics-related GLAAD media awards nominees, which both seem to exist in a world where comics only exist in this really narrow purview, and given their media-analysis angle sort of oddly make sense in wanting to stay in that neighborhood. Not an accurate or edifying reflection of comics, though. Chris Butcher hashed out the problems with such an approach here.

* not comics: your comics collection is not as silly as you think it is. Nor is your funnybook room as indulgent.

* I haven't caught up with either individual article yet, so this may be a stretch, but I don't recall seeing a whole lot of articles on the comics-focused sites talking to creators affected adversely by various publishing moves: the Cars team; Tony Bedard.

* this Ditko bibliography is awesome.

* Sean Kleefeld writes about technology and the convention experience. Whenever I think about con, I always remember that the only reason I used to go to them was to look for comics I couldn't get otherwise. That doesn't mean a whole lot outside of my personal story, but it's something I keep in mind.

* finally, this article was bookmarked for the calendar, but it mentions some sort of comics class being offered next Fall where you get to learn from instructors that include Bryan Talbot and Rutu Modan. That sounds pretty good.
 
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