Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's good to see that Tripwire magazine is still hanging in there; when civilization collapses Joel Meadows will travel from tribe to tribe performing articles on Hellboy with sticks and bits of carpet.

* there's a ton of material worth thinking over in this post "Mathematical Equivalence Of Comics," but it also might be worth visiting the article just for the idiosyncratic art choices, like this swell throwaway panel from Broom Hilda.

* industry veteran Beau Smith talks about retail marketing. While it's difficult for me to imagine a general situation much better than the one we have now due to the traditional, structural problems that face Direct Market retail -- I'm not hating on shops, I just think they're places that thwart traditional marketing approaches, or at least render them cost-inefficient -- it's nice to hear that some publishers have found successful programs to implement with some shops.

* Tony Millionaire has posted nice scans of his George R. Binks story, a seen-around-the-Internet classic.

* not comics: whoa, look at these Jillian Tamaki embroidered Penguin book covers.

* I certainly did not know until I was told that Michael Zulli has a blog.

* in discussing that complete black-and-white Zot! collection from a few years back, Michael Buntag uses that hilarious triple-panel where Jenny Weaver's mom wishes that her daughter would find someone more psychologically damaged to date. Thanks, Mom.

* it's interesting how many hardcore mainstream comics readers seem to dislike some of the big writing talent at Marvel, although somehow this hasn't stopped them from becoming big writing talent at Marvel. I guess when I was a kid there were creators I disliked intensely, too. Although come to think of it, these aren't kids.

* I have a family member who can do a tipsy 20 minutes on the overabundance of colleges and their slippery mission statements.

* Marvel has announced a new creative team for its Cloak & Dagger concept. It makes sense to me that Marvel would want to try a Cloak & Dagger comic at every opportunity because it's definitely in their top 20 of properties amenable for exploitation on film.

* it's not often you ever say this, but I think Mr. Kirby comes in second here. It's to Mr. Kane, but still.

* finally, Ng Suat Tong discusses his original Herriman.
 
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