Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the publisher Brett Warnock suggests you pre-order the hardcover Skyscrapers of the Midwest; I do, too.

* this essay on Steve Gerber's life had already been linked-to in the "Collective Memory," but I hadn't read it until over the weekend. Although I disagree with most of what it says, the essay attempts to hash out what Gerber's work was like and contains at least one anecdote I've never heard before.

* on the one hand, I don't feel the anticipation for this series building the way I did with the last one; on the other hand, comic shops tend to be more effective with certain kinds of promotions once they get used to doing them.

* the critic Jog looks at why there isn't more manga listed in one top 100 meta-list of well-reviewed comics from 2007.

* the long-running column Comics Should Be Good follows up on David Welsh's post the other day about where he buys comics, and how many he buys from each source.

* it's not my custom to run hype for publishers' sales, but I always liked the fact that Stan Sakai kept his early books at Fantagraphics, something I can't remember too many cartoonists doing. I like Usagi Yojimbo, too; the books offer diverting and pleasurable adventure stories.

* the cartoonist's Craig Thompson's piece in Jeff Smith's guest-blog series about the 1990s self-publishing movement offers up at least one idea I'd never heard before: that the Xeric Grant helped drive a generation of cartoonists into graphic novels.

* many of you e-mailed me this think-piece on modern superheroes as a reflection of national mood.

* I wonder what the over/under is on how many more stories like this one we're going to see?

* two name reviewers of the new Bill Mauldin biography: David Michaelis for the New York Times; Steve Breen for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
 
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