Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* retailer/industry advocate Chris Butcher comments on Marvel leaving DBD after the summer.

* Kate Dacey presents her must-read manhwa.

* here's an analysis of Marvel's price point on their iPad efforts. I agree with the writer on the general principle that Marvel's costs are generally not what people think they are and that the printing part of it isn't as big a percentage as is widely believed. Frankly, I'm surprised they're charging that little.

* Sean Collins writes a MoCCA Festival report. And MoCCA feels 17 years old to me! Frank Santoro thought it was a nice show.

* this headline strikes me as silly given that 2010 Eisner Judge James Hudnall is really clear what he meant -- that he put an emphasis on the indie books available to him after reading them. Still, you can follow the article back to Hudnall's writing on the judging process if you're as much of an industry wonk as I am.

* CBR has put together a twitter index of comics professionals. That seems like that would be useful. Hey, I'm on it!

* D&Q reports they had a pretty good MoCCA, too, saying they enjoyed sell-out of James Sturm's Market Day. With all of the sell-outs reported it's unclear if any of them were assisted by wholesale deals with local retailers, which is why I've kept those words in the mouths of their speakers. I don't think it's a big deal, actually, moving product is moving product, but I did get a couple of e-mails asking after books that sold out that people seemed to think were available in great quantities for the entire weekend. I wasn't there, I don't know, and I'm trusting the publishers that through whatever means they sold a lot of books.

* Richard Thompson talks about a promising forthcoming exhibit and shows off the comic he's going to have in it.

* let's all talk to Evan Dorkin.

* I missed driving attention to this great Pat Boyette correspondence with the legendary Roy Crane.

* finally, Brian Chippendale is back with another installment at Marvelous Coma. I'm very jealous of that first line. I'm jealous of a lot of the lines, actually.
 
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