Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics-friendly Edinburgh International Books Festival has announced a comics prize.

* Grant Goggans has continued his look at Legion Of Super-Heroes comic books with a lot of comics that I haven't read yet. Tom Bondurant on The Movement #1.

* while I've been grousing and will probably continue to grouse until I fall over dead at the lack of imagination big companies like Marvel show at times in rewarding and respecting their intellectual-property creators, that doesn't mean that those buildings are full of orcs that 24/7 spew misery over the professional landscape. I like the writer Matt Fraction and I take it from this piece that working at Marvel on the Iron Man character has been great for him. I'm happy for that.

* speaking of Fraction, Graeme McMillan points towards his Hawkeye work as a potential oasis of sanity in the vast, crazy desert that can be Marvel's books program. I have about a half-dozen casual-reader-of-comics friends that love that title. I like it, too!

* someone aborted their Kickstarter, which I guess is the newsworthy part, but my mind while reading this had a tougher time wrapping itself around some of the numbers being bandied about. Mostly, I'm trying to figure out how a comic that needed that amount of money to get off the ground even works at a small publisher.

* Dave Richards talks to Jonathan Hickman. TJ Dietsch talks to Marc Silvestri. Hannah Means-Shannon talks to Jen Furguson.

* there's some reasonably interesting stuff here. I think it's fine to ask the question of whether or not a site like CA represents a wise expenditure for its media empire owners. I know that I bristled slightly when I see what people with established blogs say they "need" to run a site. Then again, I don't know that we know this to be the case, and people swear the model for that site worked -- just not enough that some other motivation and resulting strategy of killing it dead couldn't gain traction.

* not comics: this just strikes me as odd. It's not like I hate the character, either, but it's like having a statue of Ronald McDonald outside your library. Which is probably the case somewhere.

* finally: Zachi Telesha, RIP.
 
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