Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* "For us, convention debuts truly are a matter of survival." -- publisher Brett Warnock speaks on the subject of convention debuts, which is worth noting even at this relatively late date because Top Shelf is one of the handful of comics companies that openly engage in this practice. Warnock goes on to say that he would consider participating in some sort of set-up by which retailers could find out about probable convention debuts, which is something that if it came to pass I'd support, too.

* the cartoonist Adrian Tomine covers The New Yorker this week, which is probably as good a time as any to mention that he's going back on the road again, if only briefly. Supporting cartoonists on tour leads to more cartoonists on tour.

* this review of Jack Cole's Betsy and Me slips into a compelling area of inquiry: the potential effect the strip may have had on Cole's suicide, and whether or not this is a fair topic on which to speculate in the first place.

* not comics: I caught the first half of this story, but not the second half: following news that Lucasfilm sued the big-time gaming convention organizer Gen Con, LLC on the basis of what may or may not have happened to funds involved with running a show related to Lucasfilm in Southern California, Gen Con has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their flagship gaming show in Indianapolis is expected to go off in August without being drastically harmed. It's weird, I've never been to one nor do I have any reason to go to one, but I thought of Gen Con the other week when the subject of moving Comic-Con International to Las Vegas or Anaheim came up: it made me think of GenCon's move a few years back (might be several at this point) from Madison to Indianapolis. I think I'd rather go to Madison. thanks to Lea Hernandez for letting me know the story had continued

* here's a nice, long, and thankfully for some of us English-language article on the 70th anniversary of Spirou and how that magazine shaped the formats and tastes in French-language comics. If there's an anniversary in French-language comics, there's probably an exhibit.

* if you take a look at the Quick Hits section, which were all collected this morning during my regular rounds -- rounds not as thorough as some folks' circuits -- I think it supports my contention made yesterday that comics coverage has exploded in terms of volume and number of sources covering the medium. Today's list is like three weeks' worth of quick links from when I started, and three days worth from the time I expanded that section to better accommodate the flood of daily articles.

* you used to see this kind of article, about the hidden comic-book collecting hobby of some person or another, with greater regularity. I have no idea why.
 
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