Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* that item we linked to the other day about Boom! receiving some venture capital has been updated to reveal the amount invested: $600,000.

* Drawn and Quarterly has photos up of Seth's production mock-up for their forthcoming Doug Wright book.

* I didn't hear back from anyone at Wizard about why Jim Silver's not on the masthead of issue #198 when Gareb Shamus told ICv2.com that Silver's fulfilling the same role at the company he always has. I did hear from someone that they've dropped a lot of their archived, on-line content. Sean T. Collins noticed. Gary Tyrrell noticed, too. I also wanted to note that they have been running more comics-related interviews and other types of content on their site recently, after a brief period when it was difficult to find much of anything comics related.

* I think this is from that long-promised and perhaps even already-released movie of short animations from a score of great world artists: Lorenzo Mattotti animation clip.

* David Hajdu's book on the 20th Century comics scares, The Ten-Cent Plague, gets one of those to-die-for write-ups, this time at Wired.

* in other comics history news, Christopher Moshier continues his History of DC Comics at Comic Book Bin. Or is it just starting up with a built-in backlog of pieces? I can't tell.

* I greatly enjoyed Jog's summary review/profile of Hideshi Hino at Savage Critics, particularly the analysis of where certain works fit into Hino's overall career in terms of his simply being able to make money and work in certain genres. It sounds sort of silly to mention this now, but Hino's translated work was important for a lot of folks in the mid-'90s whose exposure to manga was split between loftier works and science fiction/fantasy stuff aimed at kids and teens. Plus his stuff is crazy-nuts, and at its best potent, affecting and memorable.

* of equal interest to any and all comics fans who don't mind a good essay will be this long piece by Matthias Wivel that served as the text of a recent museum exhibition's catalog.

* I hadn't looked at or even thought about this year's Free Comic Book Day offerings, but it's cool that there's going to be a sampler featuring the Ignatz line.

* Nick Abadzis, whose blog piece on his late friend Steve Whitaker was so lovely, has also sent a note into CR about the colorist, teacher, artist, and historian who passed away suddenly late last week. A post at the FPI blog gives more details on the effort to do a commemorative comic in Whitaker's honor. Rich Johnston has pulled some of the best recent images from Whitaker's visual blog. Eddie Campbell writes a short appreciation of Whitaker's coloring work on New Adventures of Hitler.

* writer and librarian Steve Weiner joins the artists remembering the self-publishing movement of the 1990s at Jeff Smith's blog. I totally missed this video of Smith.

* if I'm reading the article correctly, a book about undocumented citizens led many in the European comics community to aid one such person.

* best line I've read so far today: "Five years ago we used to say that selling comics in Romania was like trying to sell ice-cream to Inuits. Four years later we can proudly state that it now resembles selling pork in Palestine."
 
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