Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I spent a bit of time this morning going through ComicsAlliance's slideshow of Prince tribute art.

* Todd Klein on The Last Companion.

* Dave Miller talks to Jack Ohman. Noha Medhat profiles Khalil Al-Baih. Greg Hunter talks to Anya Davidson.

* Matthew White suggests top animal comics.

* not comics: superhero.

* here's the latest staggering amount earned by Tintin art at auction. It's weird to think of a world where lines on paper have that kind of value and it's not a world in which I'd feel comfortable operating. At the same time, original art is an object of value and a single object of value, meaning it's not something on whose behalf multiple sellers might against claim value so that more can be sold, so it has that going for it.

* not comics: it's official: Twitter really is a news channel now more than it is a social media tool.

* I once left my cell phone at my lawyer's place, and he told me to come back and get it the hell out of their reception area.

* this single-shop sales analysis and predictive article is fun to read, but comparing the first issue of relaunched series to the last issue of previous series better yield a significant bump up in sales. It's maintaining a profitable level of sales beyond the stunts that has vexed these companies for a decade now, and that's an area a lot of people suspect this "Rebirth" initiative doesn't seem particularly likely to distinguish itself.

* the mainstream companies should make exceptions in cases like this, and should then fight each other to be the first to write a giant check. If ceding control weakens the claim, they should work to find alternatives and work out what that might be in advance. It just seems like that better serves their interests here. It's super-dumb for company to own these broadly descriptive words, for sure.

* finally, here's video of Paul Karasik teaching over in Italy.
 
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