Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the artist Pia Guerra, whose work on Y The Last Man was I think slightly undervalued in recent end-of-series appraisals of that popular book, is working on a Dr. Who project for IDW.

* the Forbidden Planet International blog contributor Wim Lockefeer (I think I have that right) compares a recent top BD list to TCJ's 1999 Top 100 Comics list.

* there may be more important news rolling out today, but there can't be any cooler than this one about a comic book found in the historical archives of the Hungarian State Security, a window into how free expression was thwarted in many European countries for a sizable chunk of the 20th Century.

* the Fantagraphics site has a sneak preview of its Amors Y Cohetes release, the last of seven volumes in the shockingly awesome paperback, reduced-sized reprinting of the entirety of Love and Rockets Volume One. If you had asked me ten years ago if I would have preferred giant hardcovers or another complete series reprint I would have gone with the former 100 times out of 100 and I would have been wrong that many times. A great series, and you should own them all.

* not comics: the comics editor Jason Rodriguez is among those who feels an affinity for those sharing his name. I sometimes wonder if other Tom Spurgeons google their names and get mad at me because they feel my tendency to write about comics reflects poorly on them.

* the Portland-based writer Brendan Wright has published an interview with Jason Leivian, one of the new breed of comic shop owners.

* the writer and retailer Chris Butcher muses on superhero comics.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has the formal Fall schedule for TOON Books. All of these books had been announced earlier, but if you want to read the news in one place, there you go.

* Dear Zuda, your system sucks.

* finally, here's a long and entertaining profile of Marjane Satrapi built around an interview -- most Satrapi profiles are entertaining, but this one adds a lot of atmospheric detail that makes it worth a read if like me you've already read 4000 profiles/interviews of the cartoonist.
 
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