Random Comics News Story Round-Up * Johanna Draper Carlson on Girl Genius: The Beast of the Rails: The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne Vol. 1. I had to list this one because when I started the site 11 years ago Johanna was notorious -- without meaning to be -- in terms of covering comics with the longest freaking titles known to humankind. Monica Friedman on Melody.
* Abraham Riesman believes there are too many comics. There are too many comic in terms of making a more easy to handle industry. There are a lot of comics generally, and a lot of comics with a low-level fanbase.
* it seems like there are a number of articles out there like this one wondering out loud how long big corporations will let ambitious artists make prints and hand-crafted versions of their work. It comes up every three to five years or so. There's some nuance to the issue, a degree of difference between an artist being asked to draw someone Batgirl and these hyper-commercialized pirate mini-outfits very actively trying to work a blind spot. I do think conventions can do a lot more in terms of keeping these kinds of vendors out of their shows.
* Johanna Draper Carlson on 
