Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it looks like these Modern Farmer comics are going to be a continuing series. I like that.

* Todd Klein on Justice League #18. Richard Bruton on Stumpy And The Living Stone and Dockwood.

* I find the fact that the CBLDF does so well with variant issues now as fundraisers to be hugely fascinating. I mean, it's not fascinating in the way you can talk about it endlessly, because there it is, but I find it intriguing that this is a place they've arrived.

* the writer Brian Bendis posts the video of Jack Kirby on Entertainment Tonight from 1982. The early '80s were brutal to comics on television. There's a Stan Lee appearance on that one Alan Thicke late-night show that I remember being hilariously mean, although it's been years since I've seen it.

* this is the kind of thing that may only interest me, but I believe when the AB Walker exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum closes at the end of the day, that will mark the end of their use of that particular space in anticipation of moving into their new one. Grand opening this Fall.

* not comics: via Gil Roth comes this home furnishings piece in a potential Luke Cage-themed home.

* that looks like an interesting publishing panel.

* Liz Ohanesian talks to Gilbert Hernandez.

* the writer Marc-Oliver Frisch was so happy with his latest analysis of DC comic book sales figures that he wrote me an e-mail with a link to it. He's pretty tough on the sales figures and you might draw in a sharp breath or two over lines like "estimated sales of the average new DC Universe comic book fell to 31,000." There was a time in the mid-1990s when we had concluded that a title needed to sell around 26,000 copies for a company like that just to be profitable -- this was probably loony talk, and I couldn't defend the process by which we came to that conclusion other than it had something to do with a mini-confession from someone who was talking about that number before it became a reality for any comics like that. And the numbers work way differently now, as does everything about the economics of comics from a publishing standpoint. Still, it's sort of amazing to even talk about numbers in that neighborhood.

* Alan Moore on the late Robert Morales.

* finally, Mike Bertino takes us into the secret world of beards. I only wish that I had a face on my neck instead of all that extra skin.
 
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