Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Kevin Melrose has some thoughts about the Eisner nominations. I think the manga thing really is the biggest news coming out of those nominations. Comics Comics thanks the academy.

* I still have a difficult time figuring out what's going on at TCJ.com, but a Blaise Larmee interview with Amanda Vahamaki sure sounds good.

* WonderCon has announced its dates for next year: April 1-3. This takes this very nice show off of Easter, and also gives them the first shot at a date in a month that's the most crowded of this year's convention months.

* speaking of WonderCon, one of the things that struck me a few days later after a weekend of listening to my peers and fellow industry members talk about superhero comics is that they seem to be taking a kind of sideways pleasure in the odd and inexplicable nature of many of those books. That seems strange to me only in that there are more direct pleasures to be had elsewhere. Maybe if superheroes were still by far the primary thing going on my fondness for the medium would lead me to a refined appreciation of the the more out-there projects within that sub-genre, but these days when I hear the new Cathy Malkasian is imminent I want to read that, not a fun run on Character X or a crazy run on Character Y or a train-wreck treatment of Character Z. Does that make sense?

* also speaking of WonderCon, Heidi MacDonald steps in with an appreciation of this year's show. I think she's right that if you want to blend tourism/time in a big city with a convention experience, that's a good one with which to do it. I spent some time off of the comics grid shopping and meeting up with non-comics friends to break bread, and they were all first-rate experiences.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco asks several questions of the latest DC mega-series Blackest Night.

* there are a lot of good ways this morning to spend some time reading about comics, but none better than this interview with Robert Williams. Williams, when he's thought of in that way, is one of comics' finest ambassadors.

* not comics: we could probably all do a better job of traversing the thin line between fair use and simply exploiting another person's image to illustrate our own ideas.

* finally, our pal and yours, the Comics Reporter Supreme Emeritus Dave Astor, recently won a New Jersey state press association award for his humor column. Congratulations, Mr. Astor.
 
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