Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Peter David attempts to track down confirmation on some bad news for the on-line fan community.

* I shouldn't be up reading anything at 4 AM, but this article wrecked me for the rest of Saturday morning. I don't dare look at it again, either. Good on the people who sold that fictional scenario for that kid.

* Chris Mautner pens a Lewis Trondheim 101-type article for Robot 6. Boy, The Nimrod was a really great comic book.

* Scott McCloud recommends Shintaro Kago.

* missed it: the writer Warren Ellis has a article up on serialization here. Ellis is a comics creator that thinks seriously about systems and innovation and even when I disagree with him he's always woth reading. I think that any attempt to revitalize serialization has to bring with it an infrastructure or improvements in existing infrastructure to make that attempt work. That sounds completely obvious, I know, but the usual way to do things in comics is start doing them and call attention to yourself doing them and wait on the industry to conform to your magnificence. I think the existing system is too old to do that now, and the potential replacements are too scattered to do without. There's also the problem that most people want to maximize reward from the publishing process rather than reinforce the mechanism for the long haul. This is usually when people at the dinner table beg me to change the subject.

* not comics: the Ash Cloud 'zine.

* Douglas Wolk has some sort of gang now.

* the Guardian continues its video series with Steve Bell on the current UK election.

* how to participate in Draw Muhammad Day.

* finally, the writer and comics historian Mark Evanier agrees with me that San Diego is the best place for Comic-Con International. I always agree with Evanier when he agrees with me. He also has some insight into the timetable for the decision.
 
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