Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* I've been hugging this story close to my chest about Universal Uclick merging with international arm Atlantic Syndication, trying to figure out some angle to it. At this point I'll admit defeat and suggest the move follows a general comics merger trend without anything particularly startling about this individual instance, and hope I'm right.
* Jeet Heer writes about the reclamation of comics artists using an interesting test case: Al Williamson.
* Matthew Brady breaks down the C2E2 programming so you don't have to. Speaking of Brady, I liked this short review of an independent film using superhero tropes: none of it matters if the film isn't very good.
* another awards nomination for Jeff Smith, this time for his TOON Book Little Mouse Gets Ready. I know a three-year-old that would be very happy if they knew what awards were and that people made the books she reads and probably some other stuff, too.
* there's a nice essay here from the artist Gabriel Ba about how Image Comics -- the comics that caught his imagination as a teen -- changed his life.
* Jeet Heer 
