Random Comics News Story Round-Up * Grant Goggans on Savage Vol. 9. Alex Hoffman on UR.
* not comics: Peter Winter writes about some of the broader, conceptual-level reasons why newspapers have had a hard time moving into the Internet era. I agree with most of the point-to-point stuff here, although I think two larger problem with this transitions were how bloated some newspapers were at a functional level and how they're being run for short-term profit. Those few media business I know with traditionally lean staffing and the ability to pivot because they don't have to show a certain level of profit every single quarter seemed to have done far better with those still employing people that work two hours a day and that are penalized if they show a four percent profit when eight was expected.
* some nice person at Blank Slate Books talks to Rob Davis.
* I quite like the formatting on those by-author EC books from Fantagraphics. I'm not sure everyone feels the same way. I'm not sure there's a significant number of people feeling anything where those books are concerned. We're probably a little past the original few waves of fandom and a little before the re-discovery period with that material. I know that I tend to read more of the stories when they're grouped this way. I find a lot of the mainstream anthologies really difficult to penetrate.
* I wasn't sure what was going on here, but when they flashed to a fat guy playing guitar while wearing a singlet, I immediately felt comfortable.
* Grant Goggans on 
