Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* inspired by an article on doujinshi culture, the cartoonist Dan Goldman is offering his Kelly for re-mixing under a creative commons license.

* that notice yesterday that Warren Ellis is ending his run on Marvel's Thunderbolts series reveals that the announcement has turned into a short series of posts on the writer's general attitude towards work for hire in the year 2008.

* if there's a bad side to Marvel donating a comic featuring the late Mike Wieringo's last art to the Hero Initiative for them to use as a fund raiser, I can't figure it out.

* culture watchers in France are still abuzz over the massive amount of money paid for the Tintin in America cover art; this article takes on the broader subject matter.

* I should really come up with a clever name for articles like this one.

* the prominent webcomics cartoonist Scott Kurtz has posted an audio file of a recent conference call about webcomics and revenue models that grew out of conversations at I think The Daily Cartoonist.

* Shonen Jump Editor-In-Chief Masahiko Ibaraki reminisces on the last 25 years at the influential magazine.

* a short post at Comics Worth Reading notes the number of out-of-print books about comics there are out there right now, including some prominent works.

* there was a time 30 years ago when this kind of whole switching out on the comics page would have been the most amazing story in publishing; in these days of frequent drops and adds, not so much.
 
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