Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* in a move that I'm sure is in some way meant to provoke an all-out nerd war with McGill, Brad Mackay notes that, "Harvard University's Department of History of Art & Architecture has agreed to fund the 2009 Doug Wright Awards so that we can offer free admission to our May 9th ceremony at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Until last night, we were charging $5.00." So that's nice.

* Chris Butcher suggests that Buenaventura Press print up Kramers Ergot Vol. 7 as three normal-sized comic books that together would cost $12. Hey, why not?

* the writer G. Willow Wilson will donate money to the Koru Foundation for ever copy of her book Air bought on Amazon May 1.

* an on-line comic soon to be a print comic is giving its readers one more chance to see the whole thing for free before the site shifts into preview mode.

* when you're late to a signing, Fantagraphics makes you carry around a giant placard of your comic art all day.

* not comics: if I'm reading this Joanne Kaufman article at the New York Times correctly, a problem with the Kindle is that it somehow robs reading of its look-at-me qualities.

It's a safe bet that the Kindle is unlikely to attract people who seldom pick up a book or, on the other end of the spectrum, people who prowl antiquarian book fairs for first editions. But for the purpose of sizing up a stranger from afar, perhaps the biggest problem with Kindle or its kin is the camouflage factor: when no one can tell what you're reading, how can you make it clear that you're poring over the new Lincoln biography as opposed to, say, "He's Just Not That Into You"?

I'm thinking another problem with the Kindle is that if I read something on the device that achingly stupid and react by barfing, I may damage expensive equipment as opposed to something I can pitch and replace.

* not comics: one would imagine it's harder to get upset about the seedy-looking comics adaptation when there has already been a full-on porn adaptation. As I recall, that was a semi-musical starring one of the girls from Meatballs. (Meatballs was a Bill Murray movie, not another porno.)

* not comics: the most disturbing review ever.

* finally, are we going to have another run on video comics magazines now? Because I'm about as camera ready as Edith Massey in Pink Flamingos.
 
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