Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* missed it: retailer Ryan Higgins lost his apartment to a fire. There's information on how to make a small donation if you're so inclined, and I ask that you consider doing so.

* hey, a color Kate Beaton comic. That's nice.

* longtime industry observer Don MacPherson suggests that while it's nice that DC is adjusting the content of its Final Crisis hardcover to contain the comics that ensure it makes some sort of basic narrative sense, they could have gone about it in a more solicitous fashion.

* I thought this a solid, straight-forward piece on Tamara Drewe.

* the great Bob Levin writes about how the back-issues market for the EC Comics he loved as a youth confused him as an adult because of what they suggested about the way artistic value was assigned to certain projects and not to others. That's a connection you don't see very frequently, although I have no idea why you wouldn't. Does a comics creator ever look at a comic book worth $100 and think that means their story was really worth something? I imagine there are people for whom this is true.

* speaking of Levin, here's a great profile of the author by Steve Duin. Duin looks at Levin's wonderful Most Outrageous and see its low sales figures as something distressing but also encouraging in that Fantagraphics continues to support Levin's work. I agree, but it's hard for me to wrap my mind around the 700 books sold part when the book is that good. Seriously, if you're an adult and can handle the occasional severity of the material, Most Outrageous is the best thing you'll read about comics written in 2008, maybe by a wide margin.

* finally, I found Dan Nadel's review of the new Boody book odd in that it's a publisher reviewing another publisher's work, an editor and curator of this kind of material reviewing another such person's work, and the fact that I can't tell why the analysis in Boody is insufficient in the light that I can't remember him saying the same thing about the Fletcher Hanks book I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, which contained almost no analysis at all and in fact kind of overtly avoided it.
 
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