Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Chris Ware reviews the new Rodolphe Topffer books for Bookforum. J Hoberman takes on the new Kirby biography.

* SPLAT! and Wizard World LA this weekend, as the events/conventions calendar perks along. Brian Wood explains why you might want to go to SPLAT!

* the Wall Street Journal excerpts David Hadju's much-anticipated The Ten-Cent Plague.

* this profile of Iraqi cartoonist Qassem HJ is just as compelling as its widespread linkage would have you believe.

* Anime News Network notes the passing of cartoonist Toshiyuki Suzuki, who worked on a number of serials in the 1960s as Kenichiro Suzuhara.

* various tributes to the just-passed Dave Stevens continue to pop up on-line, and you'll find a number of them in the Collective Memory published thirty minutes from now and resting comfortably above this post. Of particular interest are notes from Gilbert Hernandez, Larry Marder, Jim Steranko and J. David Spurlock and Jesse Hamm.

* Cold Cut Distribution is changing its name to Haven Distributors.

* I enjoyed this review of the Naji Al-Ali exhibit.

* the snippet of reasoning behind the French court's upholding of the Charlie-Hebdo acquittal provided in this article makes a lot of sense to me.

* Jeff and Vijaya at Cartoon Books re-define the productive Friday evening.
 
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