Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's difficult to cover publishing announcement like IDW's digital partnership with a company called Eagle One Media, but I'm encouraged with more companies finding on-line strategies and putting them into play. It's no longer the time by which we dream about ideal models, I think, but put into practice the best ones for each company that they can be find.

* the first group of Naruto books to appear in Viz's second effort to publish a lot of Naruto volumes at once have slipped slightly in their second week on the USA Today chart. Then again, Naruto volumes slip in that fashion when on the charts by themselves, too. Jason Green explains that a motivation for Viz in doing this stunt again is to catch the English-language books up to their Japanese counterparts in a way that may discourage scanlations.

* it's always fun when a cartoonist is willing to post early, amateurish work, like Evan Dorkin with these blasts from I guess a quarter-century ago.

* I'm not sure I can endorse the poetry, but that is one good-looking Kirby drawing.

* one of the the big problems with comics' long-term continental ice-shelf style move from selling a few comics to lots of people to lots of comics to few people is that you need to find a balance between offering material again at a price that seems like worth a double-dip but at the same time doesn't make you feel stupid for the first purchase. For at least one consumer, it seems, a recent DC project hasn't negotiated that very well.

* sometimes you have no idea what a specific link is doing in your bookmarks.

* David Welsh has some Harvey nominating suggestions for you.

* you should read Gary Tyrrell's call for a way by which webcomics people could secure micro-loans so as to introduce new projects or make other career moves without having to interrupt what they're doing and whatever revenue stream they provide. I really like that post, because it brings up something I find frustrating about comics: that 90 percent of the people with a little bit of money seem to want to enter the industry as publishers of the same kind of stuff three or four people are already doing. It's the way that theater companies always start out wanting to be the next Steppenwolf and 90 percent of those that survive are the ones that completely turn that original impulse on its head and find some niche or way of doing things that fits their skill set and provides something new. That's the long way around of saying I wish more people with a love of comics with money to invest would consider other possibilities, like the one Tyrrell seems to have in mind.

* finally, the entertaining on-line art project Covered has continued to post various artists doing their versions of classic comic book cover illustrations: Eric Reynolds on Moon Knight #15, Jeffrey Brown on Uncanny X-Men #211, and Dash Shaw on Green Arrow #2 are my recent favorites. You can see the blog in its entirety here.
 
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