Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* so did E&P fire the person who used to write their Pulitzer predictions? Because this one seemed really lame to me, at least in the editorial cartoonist category. "Here are a bunch of ex-winners and a few other prominent people" is the kind of predicting I can do and be just as not-entertaining.

* Carol Tyler is one of the world's greatest cartoonists and an interview about her forthcoming You'll Never Know is a fine way to spend some time on a Friday.

* the retailer and pundit Brian Hibbs takes one more shot at those Bookscan figures and why he argues what he argues.

* I'm not sure we're at the point where this kind of thing needs to be proposed as a brand-new idea, because the natural progression of the market has made this a reality for a lot of people. I'm also of the mind that there's something to the idea that you make something really cheap and some people stop valuing it. Still, I've always bemoaned 1) the general lack of cheap entry point comics for casual readers and 2) cheap used comics to help sustain a new reader coming to comics with their whole being the way that matinees, papering the house and discount tickets satiate new theater fans, or the way that used books make up the bulk of many passionate young readers' reading pile when they're in that crazy, consume-everything phase. A more reasonable general attitude towards all those older, not-very-collectible comics would be a place to start.

* it's not exactly a new idea that a generation of people that came up with those comics and a subsequent generation coming at them as object will value and find use for the energy and confidence of some very bad Rob Liefeld comics. I promise you that this occurred to a lot of people in comics in the 1990s, too.

* Gary Tyrrell at Fleen welcomes Scott McCloud back to regular blogging by showing appreciation for the subject of a recent post.

* finally, I was disappointed to find this feature article hanging solely on a quote that wasn't solicited for that article. General publishing issues surrounding the Kindle are fairly interesting, and while it doesn't hurt to think about the comics application of same right now -- I think, for example, the ability of the Kindle to download books as they become available could actually replicate New Comics Day in a way that's fun for its user -- I don't think that particular piece of technology gets to walk up the driveway and knock on the door until it's in color. Maybe the next iteration? Anyway, here's a nice round-up of general links regarding issues surrounding the device. I look forward to reading comics this way, and my primary concern is a pricing set-up that rewards creators, not one that protects the profit margins of the owners at the expense of creators or one that supports a specific industry infrastructure, which is what I suspect is going on whenever I hear prose people talk about devices like this one.
 
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