Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* space at SPX 2010 has sold out. I guess the overall convention bump is also hitting the indie-focused shows.

* here's Ken Parille with a nice, short piece on John Stanley's shading.

* I'd wager a guess that the historical article of the day/last couple of days is this one on Frank Hampson by Paul Gravett.

* has the X-Men's editorial Mommy been poisoning them in their crib in order to favor their little Avengers wiggum?

* the writer Sean Kleefeld presents the comics shop as place to buy a shared experience of being into comics argument. I understand the argument, but I've been shopping in comics shops since 1978 and I've never once stepped into one looking for a sense of community. I go there looking for comics.

* this is a better than usual humorous entry from Bully about newspapers in comics, particularly the Daredevil comic. Newspapers are to comics what the Internet is to movies -- a magical plot-facilitating device that makes no practical sense.

* finally, I can't remember from whom I nicked the link to this blog post at OC Weekly (sorry, whomever that is), but it presents the "CCI should stay in San Diego" argument pretty well, although it does cheat a bit by excising Las Vegas from the equation. That's the first time I've ever seen anyone actually bring up relevant hotel statistics for LA and Anaheim.
 
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