Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the retailer organization ComicsPro has announced it is taking over the organization/facilitation of 24 Hour Comics Day.

* items like this popping up on gossip pages just underline how weird and almost sort-of quirky corner of the weird part of mainstream that comics has become.

* a pair of readers sent me this essay by Kevin Kelly on the notion of 1000 True Fans, which has obvious implications for making a living as any kind of artist in the age of the Internet and highly saturated media.

* here's a long interview with Craig Yoe about his anthology Clean Cartoonists' Dirty Drawings.

* at least one news blog picked up on the fact that many editorial cartoonists buried Hillary Clinton a bit too soon; at Daryl Cagle's still-curiously non-permalinked blog, Cagle suggests that Clinton is the most fun to draw of the three remaining 2008 presidential candidates.

* the New York Times pens an article on the Buffy Summers character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer property having sex with a woman in her comic book, a comic which because of creator Joss Whedon's involvement and intentions is canon in a way most comics versions of TV shows are not. The way Whedon dismisses any implications for the character's core identity reminds me of that Margaret Cho joke about sleeping with a woman and then deciding she wasn't a lesbian or even bi-sexual but instead was just slutty. I'm also pretty certain if the Times wrote articles like this back when I used to argue about journalism with my dad, it would have been good for some point or another on my side.

* enough people are paying attention to this piece of PR to make me think that it's slightly more important than the average piece of translated manga company press.

* blogger Ron Hogan has more on reactions to yet another memoir being exposed as full of fabrication; the category has been a popular one for comics, although there's as yet been no hint of a similar accusation against a prominent comics memoir.

* editorial cartoonist Roger Harvell had a more difficult February than a lot of people.

* Comic Related has a bunch of SPACE-related coverage up. Here's a link to the bulk of their more standard, photo-filled convention coverage; they also have a link up to pages from Judenhass that creator Dave Sim had on hand, which might be of interest to you if you're not really a convention-coverage person. The cartoonist Jim Rugg offers up his personal view of the show. Columbus' own J. Caleb Mozzocco has a lengthy report that comes with a lot of mini-comics coverage.

* Terry Moore is the latest creator to add his two cents to Jeff Smith's guest-blogging series on 1990s self-publishing.

* I don't know if it's been up a while or what, but a couple readers sent me a link to this video of a panel presentation on graphic novels and comics in general featuring a bunch of comics heavy-hitters and PW's Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid.
 
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