Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Craig Thompson and his brother Phil make a comic.

* the excellent cartoonist Kevin Huizenga presents Goodbye, Peaceful Valley on his blog. He also provides a sweet and very real memory of the injured retailer David Pirkola.

* the writer David P. Welsh looks at the re-designed Viz web site and ponders what it means for the availability of volumes in certain series.

* you might find a report on recent Bookscan numbers more interesting and convincing than I do.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has an update on the printer Quebecor, and it's pretty much as expected: horrific losses, still no doubt that the company will pull through.

* a Bill Griffith media extravaganza

* the writer and retailer Chris Butcher notes that Fruits Basket will soon end and with it will go Tokyopop's biggest hit by a wide margin.

* speaking of Mr. Butcher, he and the writer/commentator Steven Grant exchange words on the state of comics conventions. Grant's point that for-profit conventions have limitations because there are only limited profits of any kind in comics is well-taken, yet so is Butcher's point that opting for profit isn't as inevitable as Grant seems to be asserting. I think the kind of convention is less important than a lot of execution issues -- I'd rather attend a well-run mainstream convention than a suck-o arts festival, although my opinion may be colored by working to cover the industry instead of simply enjoying whatever I want to enjoy within the medium.

* you can get a free copy of Hogan's Alley this Saturday.

* it's amazing to me that you can get the greatest comics series of all time, Love and Rocket Vol. 1, for $85 brand-new in a great, comfortably-formatted edition. Those are some really awesome comics. In fact, it's weird how much I enjoyed the book of one-offs and hard to categorize works, Amor y Cohetes.

* don't feel so bad, non-mainstream funny books: independent prose publishers have no idea what to do with the Internet, either.

* Barry Allen was dead?

* finally, Dick Hyacinth muses on the Vertigo move into original graphic novels. This is the kind of story that DC's perpetual stranglehold on its own sales number makes difficult to report. I'd guess that there are enough crappy selling Vertigo series that a change in the imprints basic strategy is dependent more on that than some vague sense of possibilities out there.
 
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