Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* convention organizer Chris Butcher presents a round-up of TCAF preview coverage.

* many bloggers better at this than I am have noted a preview of panels from Daniel Clowes' next book.

* not comics: holy crap, that's rough

* it's good to see Gary Tyrrell blogging after a disruption caused by seeing to the care of injured family members.

* here's a photo of Tom Devlin waiting for Bob Dylan tickets in Greenwich Village in 1962.

* the other day I suggested that someone should have put together a Spicecapades-style comic book featuring nothing but indy-comics cartoonists doing Jar Jar Binks story. Several of you have since pointed out that a) this has already happened, b) I suck for not knowing this. Thank you for both messages.

* finally, there are some follow-ups to the discussion of the potential general meaning of Diamond deciding not to do business with a James Turner comic: Heidi MacDonald, Charles Yoakum, Sean T. Collins, Dirk Deppey. I expressed my thought in a couple of the comments sections. With Dirk Deppey's comment, I obviously disagree that occasionally pushing Diamond and the Direct Market it anchors in a healthier direction is a waste of time. I don't think there is a problem we can root out and solve, but I do think that better policy can be encouraged, and that Diamond and along with them the stores they serve have responded in ways counter to such discouraging conventional wisdom in the past in ways that have been to the benefit of the industry entire. I first met Heidi MacDonald on a mid-'90s industry panel where one of the operating ideas was that Image handing that much power over to Diamond would mean the within-months death of art comics in America.
 
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