Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's something that you'll see more of as the newspaper comics page continues to loosen up and newspapers in general scramble for appeal, unique content: Faith Erin Hicks' strip Jenny's Brothers will have a 12-week run in the Sunday edition of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald.

* I hadn't seen this image from the new, annual version of the great Love and Rockets series, which has been put up to help solicit ads in the new publication. Speaking of that book's publisher, it's amazing how well the Fantagraphics bookstore has seemingly worked out for the company, and it's equally fascinating to note the general popularity of storefronts for alt-comics makers -- hey, three is a trend -- although for all I really know they'll all go away tomorrow. Right now, though, it seems to be working out. For one thing, it gives them a better platform from which to have sales.

* very, very quietly, the cartoonist Dan Piraro joins the ranks of those cartoonists running their own syndicated cartoons on their web sites. I'm not really sure how that works, but I imagine it's hoped the exposure and publicity gains offset anyone upset about the cartoon appearing in another venue. For most of us, though this is less of a wonky new media story and more of a "Hey, Free Bizarro!" story.

* Vampire Knight Vol. 4 joins the latest Naruto and Fruits Basket volumes on the USA Today best-sellers list. That Naruto volume continues an impressively slow week-to-week decline. The Naruto was a watched book because people wondered after the effect of last year's Naruto Nation promotion, where a bunch of Naruto volumes were moved through the marketplace in a short time in a way that some believed might risk fan burnout.

* whatever the Internet point and click version of "walk, don't run" might be, do that to download and listen to a three-hour interview with Gary Panter on the Inkstuds program -- or at least make arrangements to do so at some future date. There are few artists who combine that level of skill, that record of achievement and a generally excellent ability to talk about all things under the sun.

* finally, there's a lot going on this week, but I wanted to reiterate that if I were in London, there's only one event I'd be attending, that's for sure: Paul Gravett's Comica focuses on Jack Kirby.
 
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