Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* owner Hearst Corp's decision regarding the fate of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been put off until next week. It is widely expected although in no way confirmed that the publication will move into an on-line only iteration.

* I greatly enjoyed this piece by Ben Schwartz on Harvey Kurtzman, by way of two new books.

* the concluding anecdote is this short interview is pretty great. I can't even imagine what it would be like to stumble across the Fantagraphics bookstore at nine years old. I stumbled across a pawn shop with four stacks of old comics at that age and I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

* cartoonist Riyoko Ikeda received the Ordre national de la Legion d'honneur on Wednesday at the Tokyo home of the French ambassador to Japan.

* Calvin Reid discusses the Beacon Press line of comics adaptations. Am I taking it from that article that two years have passed and they haven't released a book yet? I'm having a poor reading comprehension day.

* it made me a bit sad to realize that standard product announcements is about the best we can hope for from Editor & Publisher these days. Well, that, and this kind of news. You know, one of the things that bugs the shit out of me as we watch the newspaper and news magazine industries collapse is this idea that because we're moving from this period of history in which intricately structured and expensive as all hell infrastructures can be formed to support the act of information-gathering, that means we somehow lose information-gathering. I think the reason we're going to lose a lot of information-gathering is because of the rush towards profitability for those enterprises, which has gutted the value system for those enterprises and also hastened their collapse. I think that's an important distinction.

* finally, sometimes I wonder if there's something to the fact that I don't seem to mind reading shitty to pretty good comics on-line but when I come across a really good one on-line I occasionally regret that I didn't get to encounter it in print. By "something" I mostly mean "something funny" like "this practically ensures the on-line success of the two North American mainstream companies." Okay, perhaps that's more "something sort of amusing if you're already having a good day." But isn't there something to that? Like I know I'd be happy to read a bunch of Gold Key Star Trek comics on-line, but I can't imagine ever wanting to read ACME Novelty Library that way. I wonder why this is. Is it like the difference between movies you want to see on a giganto screen versus a much smaller TV, or is there something more to it?
 
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