Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Bristol International Comics Expo has sold out, and Comic-Con International will soon sell out of its individual-day tickets. In fact, Pam Noles wrote in to say CCI ran their usual full-page ad in the LA Weekly but did so earlier than ever because of the impending sell-out. It's good to hear these comics-related businesses are doing well, although it sort of makes sense this early into an economic downturn that they would: they tend to be a good value if you can afford it, and people can still afford it.

* from a link at the bottom of my inbox comes this selection of Jeff Jones Idyl strips.

* do you recognize this face? I've always liked that guy. I've always thought they should do an entire comics story about that guy, unless it's been done already.

* not comics: I watched Punisher: War Zone over the weekend, where Dominic West tries to answer the question, "How bad an accent do I have to do to have a shot at pissing away five prestige television seasons' worth of goodwill in one go?" Someone's going to get that '80s thing down sooner or later, but it sure wasn't this movie. Some of the violence was fun, though, like Frank Castle using a LAW to blow up a parkour-performing baddie mid-air. I thought the lead actor was scarier in the scenes that were supposed to be from before he went bonkers and started killing people.

* this piece of comics-related humor by one-time comics reporter supreme David Astor is worth it just for the "read more" designations.

* here's another solid link that's been resting in an e-mail I had yet to look at: Marc Weidenbaum made of Pulse! cartoon features should bring back memories of a time when that was one of the two or three solid, dependable gigs in comics. I'd buy a trade of that stuff, I think. Updated: D'oh! (thanks, Heidi)

* this is fairly adorable.

* finally, I missed this: Steven Grant has good advice up for folks looking to break into the comic book business. Basically, he suggests the best way to start making comics is to start making comics. I agree with that. I'm not as certain as Grant seems to be that the bigger companies use creators that have come to their attention through independent work in order to woo their personal audience to a Paladin mini-series or whatever. I do think they want to see a certain quality in the work, and count on the experience of being able to make comic book X to help their learning curve when it comes to comic book Y.
 
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