Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* ComicMix follows up on word that broke yesterday that Wizard is trying to sell its office and warehouse space, and gets a non-committal comment from a representative of the company. I don't think this is dire news, but it's interesting to see given the enormous personnel turmoil that Wizard has seen in the last about 18 months now. Rumors among ex-Wizard employees has it that current employees found out when they saw someone putting the "For Sale" sign out in front of the building, and that there's been no in-house explanation as of yet.

* here's an analysis of what's selling for the big three manga publishers; it seems like the kind of thing that might not be interesting to more rigorous watchers of that part of the comics industry, but is helpful for those of us who aren't.

* the comics review and analysis site Metabunker provides a super-solid Best of 2007 list that unlike some such features becomes more compelling the more you read of it. For one thing, their comic of the year is Dominique Goblet's Faire semblant c'est mentir.

* the comics magazine Wizard has their 50 Events That Rocked Comics list up now, and in contrast to the Metabunker list, the Wizard piece only grows more aggravating the more you read of it. I don't believe in automatically busting on Wizard just because they're Wizard, but it's really irritating when they pretend to cover all of comics when it's clear that as a group culture they view comics as superhero books with a few oddball independent titles thrown in for variety's sake. It's even more annoying when people latch on to their sporadic coverage of non-muscle titles as some sort of positive cultural good to be applauded instead of deplorable editorial oversight to be mocked. Also, how did they come up with that date for Mike Diana?

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has an interview up with Archaia Studio Press' Mark Smylie, who touts the virtues of Gunnerkrigg Court as a potential breakout hit on the level of their first Mouse Guard collection.

* finally, happy 10th birthday to Scott Kurtz' PvP, one of the first successful, high-profile webcomics. That's quite an achievement, although I didn't need to feel quite so old quite so early in the morning.
 
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