Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* DC is losing Brian Hughes as a reader. That post articulates something that you only see occasionally: the cost of that company's start-and-stop strategy with certain titles and doubling-down on certain event-style, temporary comics instead of more focused development on regular titles. If you have a hard time grasping what Brian's talking about, think of it in terms of a time you or someone you know followed network television shows, and how that would have been made more difficult with a focus on mini-series and made-for-TV movies as various series winked in and out of existence.

* D+Q profiles Pascal Girard at their blog, and relates a bit of his unique story as an artist in comics.

* how to find romance at a comics convention (non-using-the-yellow-pages edition).

* there are two excellent reports on the CCS Industry Day last week that I covered in my own report here. The first is the Secret Acres write-up here; the second is Jen Vaughn's report from the ground here.

* Tucker Stone goes to war. Nerd war.

* Paul Gravett will write his convention reports when he damn well pleases, thank you very much.

* when someone e-mailed me that there were rumblings about Frank Quitely's conception of a female cartoonist, I knew that Sean T. Collins would eventually write a solid post about it either at his site or on Robot 6 or both.

* not comics: Dan Nadel looks at Ben Jones' latest animation effort.

* Brian Hibbs talks about the pleasures of serial comics reading. I think I agree, although I think that a couple of extra advantages that accrue with comic book reading over trade volume reading are the simple facts of easy entry point and reading comics in the context of other comics.

* finally, Ng Suat Tong discusses the onanistic pleasures of travelogue comics.
 
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