Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Emerald City Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow, and brings with it a kind of semi-busy Spring convention season that's mostly strung together with volunteer gigs as opposed to must-attends. The ECCC is in that enviable space where it's still growing and people are still more excited about it this year than they were the day before, so that should be a good vibe con. I have to imagine that the only thing that would be bad is if there was light attendance, but conventions have done well in this down economy. Plus, there are bargains to be had.

* missed it: fans of the alternative comic book might be pleased to hear that an issue of Jordan Crane's Uptight is at the printers. It's pretty much come to that, hasn't it?

* erudite puppet Bully and I share a great deal of affection for late 1960s Avengers, the first comic book that functioned in a way were the comic both existed in a universe larger than themselves and benefited from that fact. It was full of great Buscema/Palmer art, besides. That Roy Thomas-written run of comic books is one that functions best as a comic book series -- I don't think I could convince my Mom of the differences in quality between it and another well-crafted superhero comic of the time, but I don't think it would take much to convince a someone who's read as many comics as I have that they were at least pretty good.

* an abstract comics blog has been launched in support of a forthcoming Fantagraphics anthology covering that same group of comics. This is good, because I'm not sure most people have any idea what they're talking about when they say "abstract comics."

* not comics: these shoes designed by Ben Jones would make some fine summer slips.

* I like to think he keeps it around the house to come up with snappy comebacks after Batman schools him with some sort of brutal put-down during Justice League meetings.

* finally, the Comics Comics crew reports in from Fumetto, the Swiss comics gathering that despite Frank Santoro's efforts to locate a long box full of 25-cent Slash Marauds somewhere in city limits remains the most Euro-riffic of all the European comics festivals. Plus it looks like this.
 
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