Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Neil Gaiman is to receive approximately $400K from an escrow account established by Todd McFarlane.

* Michael Dooley talks to J. David Spurlock about Wally Wood. Spurlock was recently named director of the late artist's estate.

* Graeme McMillan declares 2012 a possible Year Of Image Comics. There's probably something to that, although McMillan's analysis doesn't touch on any of the structural issues that I think may be involved. In short, I really don't think Image gets Ed Brubaker and Grant Morrison to do comics for them if those creators didn't feel that Image was the right place for those individual comics to do well in both series and trade form.

* Frank Santoro shows off some of the comic books he collected on a recent road trip.

* missed it: a short tribute to John Severin over at Ain't It Cool News.

* Gary Tyrrell continues to track Rich Burlew's massively successful Kickstarter campaign, looking at Burlew's release of how much the overall total was hit by dropped pledges (not a lot at all) and how much it has to pay out in fees (a tiny bit more than they thought).

* David Brothers on Spider-Man: Reign. Greg McElhatton on Glory #23. Don MacPherson on Friends With Boys. Johanna Draper Carlson on Usagi Yojimbo #144. Nina Stone on Galactus: The Origin. Rob Wells on Area 10. J. Caleb Mozzocco on some picture books. Ryan Lindsay on Usagi Yojimbo #144. Rob Clough on African-American Classics. Greg Burgas on On The Odd Hours. Todd Klein on Yesterday's Tomorrows. Richard Bruton on Tortured Life #1.

* I greatly appreciate this response to yesterday's Charles Hatfield interview.

* Kiel Phegley talks to Axel Alonso and Matt Fraction.

* hey, it's a new Magic Pen page.

* the artist Ralph McQuarrie has apparently passed away. There was a time when looking at the way an artist drew stuff that related to your favorite film or book (like the yearly Tolkien calendar) was maybe the best thing that you could do in relation to something you liked until there was a sequel in theaters or bookstores or the film showed up on network television. In the case of Star Wars, there was a huge gap between the material out there through which one could extend one's interest and the fervent desire for fans to live in that universe a while longer, so staring at McQuarrie's art was a big, big deal. At least it was in our house.

* Tim Kreider draws Nichelle Nichols.

* Faith Erin Hicks reviews Alien in comics form.

* Paul Gravett has posted a succinct and fact-stuffed review of this year's Angouleme Festival, including the pertinent fact about the French-language comics industry that more than 100 books a week are being published (on average) while sales are not growing to match the increase in books being sold (although they're weathering declines better than other sectors). I can't imagine what it must be like to publish a book when there could be 100 or so other books out in a week; the American market is way overcrowded for the number of people it serves, but there's some stratification in the books being offered that I don't think is necessarily reflected in what comes out in that key European market.

* I'm always thankful for more translated Guy Delisle shorts.

* finally, this is very funny.
 
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