Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Brian Fies is showing off his poster for the forthcoming Comics & Medicine conference. I would, too.

* it's not always necessary for me to see a lot of a work before I decide I want to see more, but I thought effective this visually-driven little commercial for Mikkel Sommer's Obsolete.

* if you don't have the time right now, bookmark this one for later: an introduction to German comics.

* it seems Alan Gardner has way more interesting archives than I do.

* there's almost no such thing as an uninteresting Dan Clowes interview at this point in the cartoonist's career. Sean T. Collins talks to the cartoonist at the new TCJ. Alex Deuben talks to him for CBR.

* not comics: Sean T. Collins' comments about the critical enterprise in this piece makes me wonder anew if comics doesn't do pretty well relative to other media in terms of having smart people talking about newer work.

* not comics: can we maybe find a phrase to replace "comic/comics/comicbook journalism"? For one thing, I think we might need that term to describe what Joe Sacco does. Mostly, though, journalism about the comics industry is just industry journalism, in this case about comics. There's no special comics-ness to what people do that try to cover comics as an industry or art form that distinguishes what they do from what people interested in other media or that cover, say, the timber industry do. Not really. I mean, there are distinctions and unique qualities, and Chris Marshall has been pretty good at getting at some of those things, so you should follow that link, but I don't think there's anything comics-ish about it.

* the retailer and industry advocate Brian Hibbs walks through a bunch of the newest comics in terms of their content and in terms of their existence as industry items -- something that he is being asked to sell.

* the last Tintin adventure.

* are the Warriors Three half-naked all the time in the Ultimate Universe?

* Johanna Draper Carlson catches that Fred Van Lente is gathering opinions about the reading of free comics. Weirdly, I never thought of the reading of free comics as piracy, I always thought of the digital distribution of material not yours as piracy. Do people really extend that phrase onto that part of it? I always thought that was its own thing.

* finally, that is one fetching Doctor Strange image from the artist Farel Dalrymple. No one on planet earth would object to a series starring the character pairing Dalrymple and one of those high-profile authors that wants to write comics. Just sayin'.
 
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