Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a bomb threat interrupted a comics-related roundtable at Paris' Salon du Livre, ActuaBD.com reports.

* the esteemed boutique publisher Buenaventura Press discusses its Spring schedule, including news that they'll be taking over distribution on Arthur magazine. The Complete Jack Survives should be an awesome comic, and they've put a run of great mini-comics into their store.

* good grief.

* Franz Fuchs wrote in to note that the Forms Stretched To Their Limits essay is archived on the New Yorker site right now. I don't know if that's always the case, and if it isn't, and you haven't read it, you really need to. Spiegelman's less-famous Bernard Krigstein essay is available, too.

* the writer and critic Don MacPherson with more on DC's decision to provide the same price to both the US and Canadian markets.

* there are very few tributes to the late writer Steve Gerber coming to my attention at this point, but I thought this was a good one, at least good enough to spotlight.

* Nicole Rudick with a profile of Rocketship.

* "I think an ideal life would be just drawing."

* the writer and critic Noah Berlatsky asks after the lack of an equivalent to blaxploitation cinema in comics, and, more widely, the relative lack of African American participation in comics in general. That's always a question worth asking, and I feel that the freelance hiring history of the big companies is so shameful in terms of minorities (and women) I've advocated that they should consider implementing a program explicitly designed to expose more such freelancers to the process. That being said, I'm not sure I agree that everything Berlatsky mentions is all that important. I mean, it's hard for me to give a shit that comics may be less cool because comics doesn't have a Quentin Tarantino with access to a tradition of blaxploitation cinema to reference in his own work. (I'm not even sure that's 100 percent totally true, as I know there are mainstream writers who are fans, for example, of the Love Brothers.)

* here's an article updating us on the situation facing newspapers in South Africa, where the press and cartoonists are free... to get sued by powerful government officials.

* the most important story in comics history comes to a close.

* I totally missed posting yet another story of the Washington Post dropping a run of a comic strip. The Post seems to do this five or six times a year, and frequently doesn't tell their readers that they've decided to do this.

* Garry Trudeau picks the next president.

* finally, go here for a quality interview with established web cartoonist Wes Molebash on his experience dipping a toe into the Zuda comics effort sponsored by DC Comics.
 
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