Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Comic-Con International hotel rooms go live for reservations at Noon ET on March 9. Differences this year include more hotel rooms and one night reservation taken right away in order to reduce number of people holding rooms, refundable only until early May. I think that's also a much earlier date generally.

* go here for photos of people using cartoons as a protest about the way things stand in Libya.

* the cartoonist Alec Stevens offers up a mini-survey of Christian comics here. There are more out there, but it's a fine list of intriguing works and is of course presented in a genuine, heartfelt way.

* the publication of an exact kind of example strip leads to this love letter to Sinfest.

* Comic Riffs interviews Jef Mallett on his 10-year anniversary with Frazz, which will likely freak you out in the "I can't believe it's been a decade/we're all hurtling towards the grave" manner. There are some cartoonists in comics you interview where you come out more mentally healthy afterward they're such positive people to which to expose yourself, but interviewing well-known fitness enthusiast Mallett may actually make you more physically healthy. Congratulations to Mr. Mallett.

* Sonny Liew and Gene Yang future team-up.

* the writer Jody Macgregor ends his 100 Comics To Read Before You Die with one of those surprising but not really surprising #1s.

* the retailer and industry advocate Chris Butcher talks about some of what's involved with buying manga, including the fact that no matter what it's like it's not only insane to use customer decisions as "teaching moments" it doesn't match up to history. Besides, if someone convinced me that something I did got Cromartie High School halted however many volumes before the end, I wouldn't stop crying.

* a student uses one of Alison Bechdel's cartoons on a class assignment and Bechdel totally approves.

* how to read Seth.

* more image-focused teasers for a pair of overlapping Marvel initiatives. I like the principal one. I wish I could say the same of this handsome image for a forthcoming DC project, which doesn't really say anything other than "Here I Am." Or maybe "here i am."

* James Kochalka draws Spider-Man.

* here's another slideshow on an issue I imagine is welcome to editorial cartoonists walking the minefield of the international political landscape right now: the Academy Awards, which were last night. This sort of reminds me of the Super Bowl stuff, where I understand every negative impulse in reaction to it except for the idea that it's somehow unavoidable. I watched a Simpsons I hadn't seen, caught Knicks/Heat, read a comic book called Brain Camp and went to bed -- Mr. Excitement, I know, but a non-Oscars evening for sure. I saw very few of the nominated movies this year, although I thought Colin Firth was actually better and The King's Speech even more ordinary than I was told.

* speaking of the Oscars, the cartoonist Kate Beaton has some really funny and I guess one could say slightly mean cartoons on top of her twitpic account right now, although as to the latter description I can't imagine anyone being so serious about such matters as to have their feelings hurt. I say that as a fat guy who owns an X-Men t-shirt. One of Beaton's cartoons reminds me of that year when Tim Leong tried to ask various comics people outside the Eisners what they were wearing to the show and the guys he talked to instantly played along and the women he talked to had no idea what he was getting at.

* not comics: this probably should have gone first, but congratulations to Shaun Tan on winning for his animated short.

* hard not to laugh at Michael Kupperman's "Good Ol' Charlie Sheen." Kupperman's one of the most reliably funny cartoonists going.

* Jillian Tamaki talks faith.

* finally, the cartoonist Dave Kellet has posted pictures of the original art he has around his studio.
 
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