Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* all-around swell guy Batton Lash's The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law has been nominated for something called a Benjamin Franklin Award; you can read all about it and find appropriate links here.

* following up on their good news regarding their doing a book with Imiri Sakabashira, Drawn and Quarterly runs a bit of work from another forthcoming translation, Susumu Katsumata's Red Snow.

* the critic Tucker Stone profiles Cold Heat by talking to Frank Santoro and making sure there's adequate focus on the contributions of Ben Jones.

* I never link to Mike Sterling's walks through the goofier, junkier aspects of Diamond's Previews catalog, but they're always fairly entertaining. Right now you could contend that there's a bit of edge to such posts in that Diamond has minimums for comics content but seems to find space for all sorts of bizarre crap, most of it related to superhero ephemera. That's not to say that these items don't have to play by the same rules, but that it might be worth noting every now and then that the DM as a whole finds more value in Batroc busts than in Sammy Harkham comics.

* translator and historian Frederik L. Schodt has won The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette award from the government of Japan. Former winner include Tommy Lasorda and George Takei.

* finally, speaking of comics snapshots, here's a line from a Dan DiDio interview that stuck with me mostly because it likely won't stick at all with the hardcore fans now used to this kind of routinely weird stuff: "Aquaman died in the Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis series after he had been transformed into the squid-faced mentor of the new Aquaman." Come to think of it, it's also pretty funny if Aquaman being alive or dead is a not-always-known thing among superhero comics fans so hardcore they're pestering Dan DiDio. Shouldn't he have enough market presence people know if the guy is alive or not? Maybe someone needs to do a site like this one for the Sea King.
 
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