Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Yen Press has canceled its much ballyhooed anthology Yen Plus and is moving the enterprise on-line. The magazine will have lasted just a bit less than two full years.

* Dirk Deppey takes a look at a 1992 issue of the great comics magazine Garo.

* tales of airplane problems and the comics world: Chris Staros and Brett Warnock of Top Shelf were ashed out of making it to Stockholm for the comics show they love attending over there; Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics traveled back to Seattle from the East Coast (MoCCA, a trip to CCS) on a plane that had to emergency land.

* that Jaime Hernandez cover for The Village Voice sure is pretty.

* I know that for some reason all comics fans are supposed to live and die with the latest effort by any corporation to re-tell a story already expertly told by a character's original creators in the hopes that a few more people throw their money at it, and I'd like to respond grumpily to the presumption involved, but this cover just sort of made me laugh. Good luck with that, fellas.

* not comics: tote bag design winners at The Strand.

* Rex Babin attempts to rally the AAEC troops in terms of the opportunities available to them at this year's convention in comics-loving Portland.

* Kristy Valenti has a longish piece up on the Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel adaptations and how they fit into the wider Baby-Sitters Club empire.

* finally, I'm not all that into Internet creativity memes -- there's a sing-a-long aspect to them that usually gets me down -- but "adapting page 100 out of your favorite prose book into comics form" is a pretty killer one.
 
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