Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a new serial from Rumiko Takahasi will have its English-language debut on-line rather than in-print.

* I was as surprised as Drawn and Quarterly's Peggy Burns that more people didn't react to that nice review of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life in the New York Times. That's a great get, doubly so for a book that doesn't have an easy pop-culture hook, and while I expected to be hammered over the head by mentions, I think I ended up reading three posts on it. Although CR doesn't really cover marketing in that way, there are plenty of sites that follow such moves -- sometimes with what seems like breathless wonder, other times with all the fake critical authority that the Internet allows -- that I guess aren't doing that so much anymore. An interesting coverage event to contrast against the Tatsumi review would be how people may or may not react to the fact of an article being done about a J. Jonah Jameson-related plot development in the Spider-Man comic books.

* as a one-time submissions editor of a different nature, it seems to me that an electronic submissions-only policy at a syndicate is mostly a bad idea, although I'm not sure I can articulate why. It just seems to me that delivering in print is still an important part of the newspaper comic strip, so having an artist that can display at least a bit of talent to that end would be preferable to one that can solely work within electronic means. In other words, I would imagine it'd be easier to teach someone how to upload strips than it is to find people whose work pops on paper and who are professional enough to work according to the seriousness a print submission requires.

* finally, after reading this, the longtime comics reporter Tom Heintjes asks if Dick Tracy has become a laughingstock -- meaning basically if Dick Tracy is no longer a priority in terms of making sure its artwork is first rate and well-done.
 
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