Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a Fletcher Hanks mystery. It's strange how many cartoonists have good detective names. Who wouldn't stay up late for the "Paul Pope Saturday Night Mystery Movie" or hurry home on a Sunday for an episode of "Quesada and Wife" on PBS?

* Jennifer de Guzman at SLG tracks the story about James Turner's new book not making it into Previews. I hope that everyone who read Sunday's essay keeps in mind it's not really a defense of James' book, although one could easily make such an essay-long defense. My goal Sunday was to use Diamond's move on a book of obvious merit to throw a spotlight on an unimaginative and potentially self-defeating general approach to an arts market that makes books like Turner's the victim of reactionary constrictions and systemic malaise, all without a positive formulation to offer up as a counter-value. That's not a down-slightly strategy, and I think comics can do better than that in one of its core markets. There are no solutions for most of these complicated industry problems in the Encyclopedia Brown sense, although people will keep clamoring for them where comics are concerned. I do think, however, that Diamond and through it the entire Direct Market are systems that can function with greater clarity and purpose and that this would likely benefit everyone.

* members of the Comic Book Bin gang discuss older comics available in collectible bins that they feel are better and have reason to believe will be priced at a cheaper price point than many if not most of this week's new comics.

* this is how to tell you are old: dumb songs can make you cry. Dumb songs that aren't even sad. I think there may be a horse with wings in there. I mean, come on.

* here's a nice, concise primer about how to use the US Postal system. It's designed for publishers of the webcomics maker variety, but it's good general advice for anyone who uses the mails to move comics, comics-related and/or convention-related material around. Consider bookmarking it.

* anyone who complains about this is an asshole. This, too. That first link is weird, though: just the idea that this is news worth noting is almost like someone wanted to create an article to make newspapers look years and years behind the times.

* for something more in the spirit of the times, here's ICv2.com's shot at a list of comics available for mobile devices. I'm not sure those goofy DC hybrid things should count as comics, though.

* finally, the National Post has done a series of interviews in relation to this weekend's Toronto Comic Arts Festival. The one I haven't linked to otherwise include: Tom Neely, Graham Annable, Paul Rivoche, Jose Villarrubia, Troy Little, Scott Campbell, J. Torres, Erika Moen, John Malloy, Steve MacIsaac, Tara McPherson, Tom Humberstone, Tim Fish, Ryan North, Michael Cho and Willow Dawson.
 
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