Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this year's Pulitzer Prize nominations are imminent.

* so I guess there's a six-page Spock story by Paul Pope in the new Wired. I'm not sure what else I can say about that without feeling I'm getting out of some film studio's expensive car and helping push it up a hill, but it sure sounds cool. Everyone's comics pal Dustin Harbin did the lettering.

* the much-respected David Lloyd talks about the coloring on V For Vendetta. Although the article provides the best summary of what he's getting at, I think, you should definitely click through and look at the stuff on Lloyd's site.

* not comics: Todd Marinovich = Rorschach

* there's an interesting article from Brian Hibbs here about his 20th anniversary as a retailer, including a couple of casual mentions of elements of that job I'm not certain that I even knew: that retailers would visit regional warehouses the night before new comics day to get a sense of the week and buy comics, and that you could still start a comics shop in the late 1980s with very little in the way of investment (I would have guessed that stopped being true about five years earlier).

* not comics: some days I worry about the big newspapers of record going out of business and some days I can't wait for them to go. This art piece is a peach: a super-shaky premise (even the three stars cited as exemplars of staying thin had fuller faces later in their careers), the more interesting examples even if you accept the premise are ignored (the puffy and never better Alec Baldwin; the scary-looking but still quite lean Nicolas Cage), and an ending that utilizes a fishy-sounding quote from a Hollywood publicity person as unchallenged truth. Hurry up, printapocalypse. (via Gil)

* I'd have to take a much longer look at the cartoonists that are still out there before I could safely agree with Daryl Cagle's view that the loss of editorial cartoonists means diminished choices in terms of style and approach. Loss of choices = less choices seems like unassailable conventional wisdom, but it could certainly be the case that the job losses have an effect on one school or another and that a harsh market might favor alternatives over a deep bench in a tradition or two. Also, a variety of styles might crop up as a market outcome in response to fewer staffed positions.

* hipster manga?

* I enjoyed reading Neil Gaiman's measured response as to the relative expense of his Absolute Sandman books. I also enjoyed looking at some Mike Allred art from his collaboration with Gaiman on a Metamorpho story.

* finally, the writer Mark Evanier has launched his project to restore Len Wein's comics collection; among other things, this post suggests you're not being as helpful as you think you are if you don't color in the lines on an effort like this one. If you can help in the way that they need helps, that seems to me a nice thing to do.
 
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