Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the 2008 MoCCA Festival has announced its programming, and it looks like there's some very interesting stuff in there. My first reaction is that I wouldn't mind at all making the trip off site for three or four of these panels, which I suppose is the idea. Also, I hadn't known they were honoring the animator Bill Plympton this year.

* what looks like a Benoit Peeters film about manga-ka has been embedded in this blog entry. I probably should know exactly what this is, but I don't. Lots of great imagery, though.

* the radio host Robin McConnell has an odd story up about Dave Sim that I'm not sure is confirmed or not. Dean Haspiel passed along this video of the making of an issue of Sim's Glamourpuss.

* one significant NYC comics personality wrote in with this observation:

Last night, when I turned on the radio's sleep timer, the last thing I heard before drifting off to sleep was a four-minute love letter to Iron Man on the BBC World Service. This morning, when the radio went off to wake me up, the very first thing I heard was a long interview with Art Spiegelman on the BBC's French language service (WNYE is multi-lingual), flogging a new edition of Breakdowns.

I dunno what it means. But I sure know that sorta coverage never happened ten years ago.

* please let's not have this catch on in comics.

* this editorial slamming the prosecutors that brought charges against Rome, Georgia retailer Gordon Lee and held onto them for three years before seeing them dismissed also makes me never want to see the new John Adams mini-series.

* speaking of the Lee case, Sean T. Collins has an appropriate message for all of those folks whose reaction to the case when it was officially announced was that they were 100 percent certain Lee was guilty and the comic was obviously porno and to hell with them both. Didn't hear a whole lot from that whole goofy crowd after the charges were finally dropped, and hopefully the idea that CBLDF support is a merit badge for optimal decision-making as voted on by everybody in comics according to the actions of the imaginary retailer that lives in their head -- as opposed to an organization that takes on unjust laws and their application -- has gone away for good.

* finally, Mike Lester for the win.
 
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