March 24, 2010
Random Comics News Story Round-Up

*
what Mike Sterling considers the perfect comic. I think it's a really good all-ages adventure comic with a lot of craft elements to recommend it, and it's obviously a pop-culture item with which to be reckoned, so count me on board.

* Ray Olson
picks the best 10 graphic novels to come out since March 15, 2009, although most of them are from 2009 and I'd argue
Footnotes In Gaza was, too.
* Graeme McMillan
looks at the "Cover Version" concept.
* longtime Marvel editor Tom Brevoort
names a few of the company's more prominent extended storyline sagas.
*
so I guess some artists are agitating for a Creator-Con alternative to Comic-Con, apparently out of some frustrations with the show. I'm actually stunned that no one's ever tried to just put on a focused show near CCI during that weekend. I don't even see it as a sure sign that people are angry with Comic-Con, as I bet a lot of people would enjoy doing both. I wouldn't spend time going to see a bunch of not-interesting cartoonists, but I'd make the time to go see some good ones if they were nearby. Why not? I plan on shopping at Quimby's during the Chicago Con. One problem I see is that the people who end up trying this have no money whatsoever, because a lot of the stuff that I would imagine working -- honoring CCI badges, for instance -- kind of cut into maximizing the dollar.
*
this is beautiful.

* Sean T. Collins
offers a round-up of comics people and the television show
Lost.
* Calista Brill
expresses her love for
The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck.
*
Bad-Ass, The Newest X-Man.
* Jeet Heer with
more smart talk on word balloons.
* finally,
this interview with Ted Adams was described to me as a victory lap for IDW gaining premier status with Diamond, but if you don't get a victory lap for breaking into that club, no one ever gets a victory lap.
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