Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I like to take a look at the appropriate Daryl Cagle collection of editorial cartoons whenever a story comes up that includes as an important factor the public's reaction to the story. I think the Swine Flu story qualifies. That Ottawa Citizen cartoon is kind of cute.

* not comics: the writer and too-infrequent comics reviewer Paul Di Filippo notes that things have become so bad for Disney comics in America that Gyro Gearloose's Little Helper is apparently taking on freelance advertising work, like this popular Google ad.

* not comics: apparently, today is Star Wars day. Is it possible to know less about anything in one's general wheelhouse than I know about the various Star Wars comic books? I think maybe not. Although if it wasn't done, someone should have done a Spicecapades-style tribute comic starring Jar Jar Binks.

* here's advice on joining a comics collective. I used to think that if you joined any collective the most important thing was that if it came down to it, you'd want to be able to beat up the other members. Now I think this is only important in comics.

* here's a list of recommendations from writers about manga of series that could have stood a nomination or six from the Eisner Awards, but instead were totally forgotten. It's a nice place to start if you're looking for some straight-forward manga reading, the Japanese comics equivalent of the kind of books that tend to win Eisners, if that makes sense. Also, while I thought it was a fair enough criticism, it's my belief that Chip Kidd's Bat-Manga! doesn't deserve to be remembered as a book with an attribution controversy. Yikes. That should be a footnote given how lovely that book is -- a question asked and then a question answered. It would be ironic if because some objected to Kidd's attribution strategy the book ended up not being remembered for Jiro Kuwata's snappy comics but for those questions.

* finally, someone has to make the joke: the good news is that this device available from iTunes will allow people to find comic shops; the bad news is that this device available from iTunes will allow people to find comic shops.
 
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