Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* former newspaper publishing industry bible Editor & Publisher calls attention to Daryl Cagle's recent interview with laid-off cartoonist Robert Ariail. It's interesting to me and perhaps indicative of something that it's with Ariail's departure from his long-time position that we're finally going to see a straight-ahead platform for his cartoons.

* he's the best there is at what he does, and what he does is draw Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser adaptations. (sent to me by everyone)

* the cartoonist Evan Dorkin talks about drawing a "lost scene" for the Turner Movies promotion and ponders going to see the Humbug event at The Strand.

* not comics: I'm not all that interested in this week's Amazon.com listing story but I did appreciate David P. Welsh calling attention to a quote about the value of multiple sales platforms as a way to disallow the entire possibility of one vendor's potential peccadilloes becoming market reality.

* administrative note: maybe it's the economy, but I've received dozens of e-mails recently from people pressing for some sort of direct PR boost for their various professional projects outside the standard review, interview or "publishing news" coverage. I'm afraid I don't really do that kind of thing, and I don't do a lot of stuff that if looked at sideways resembles that kind of thing. I apologize for not being of more use to many of you. I love receiving your PR, and wish you all the best, but please understand if I pass on giving you the help you seem to think you deserve.

* not comics: I think this article is nonsense, and although I appreciate someone wanting to sell their book I never thought of Editor & Publisher as the kind of publication that provides authors these sorts of platforms. Oh, well. Anyway, there's good writing and bad writing, and referencing is a tool that can be employed effectively or poorly, just like the rest of one's tool set. I can't imagine the most accurate, generation-friendly reference in the world would genuinely improve any article on Tim Geithner; I also can't imagine blasting them out of text employed by some of the more engaging news commentators helps anything, either. Just a non-issue. Or, as Murray might add, "The man said it was a non-issue."

* finally, while I enjoy watching Chris Butcher beat on the NYT comics-related lists and the likely screwed-up methods for compiling them, I came at my own dismissal of them from another angle. Since the Times wasn't sharing their methodology, and as their coverage for the vast majority of the time they've paid attention to comics has been made up of not-very-serious enhanced press releases in service of the major publishers, I just didn't see the announcement of their lists as something that should be extended coverage. So I haven't. I'm always open to having my mind changed, but all I've read about the lists since their initial announcement is people giddy about getting to use the New York Times best-selling author appellation, general bafflement about some of the individual results, and Butcher repeatedly kidney punching his best guess at how they're making this particular package of sausages.
 
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