Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics business news and analysis site notes that Dark Horse is publishing an omnibus edition of Clamp's Clover, interesting in that it marks another series moving into omnibus format for a second crack at the market and for Dark Horse recovering a project that was serialized in trade form earlier by Tokyopop.

* here's a lengthy story about FCBD from the perspective of a small-press creator.

* this story about a line of Twilight Zone comics from a major publisher leaves a couple of big questions on the table. First, does anyone expect the books as described to be any good? The books from CCS have used a lot of outside talent, not simply faculty and students as this article seems to suggest, in order to keep their Hyperion books at a high level. James Sturm is also much more of a known quantity than most cartoon-educators when it comes to maintaining quality on the page. Second, is "Twilight Zone" really a hot license that demands this kind of investment from a major publisher? Can we expect a Fibber McGee and Molly mini-series soon? I'm always confused by stories like this.

* the cartoonist Evan Dorkin on FCBD 2008.

* the writer Don MacPherson notes that Strange Adventures in Halifax is having their FCBD on May 10 because of local flooding. The piece mentions that this does allow them to given Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca's new Iron Man series into the hands of fans of the film. MacPherson earlier wrote about the irony of a certain message that one can read into the film. Johanna Draper Carlson muses on what Iron Man comic one may read that closely approximates the movie. As I mentioned earlier this week, there's not a lot out there that seems to me directly reflective of what the movie seems to be offering. Maybe the new series fits the bill; writer Fraction will be signing copies in support of its debut. He was profiled by the hometown paper.

* finally, PWCW profiles four young cartoonists. I'm in the middle of Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly-Button right now, and it may be really, really good.
 
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