Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has a profile of two forthcoming non-fiction works from Hill & Wang. I'm not sure why this pretty straight-forward hype-ish article drew my attention, but it did. Is there really a market for books like this?

* the cartoonist Richard Thompson talks about the book serialization debut of his great newspaper strip, Cul De Sac. What's worth noting about the first collection is that Thompson's strip appeared as a Sunday local before being picked up for daily syndication. I was holding out hope that the first book would concentrate on the syndicated material and some boutique house would step in with a complete pre-syndication collection, but instead it looks like they'll put several of the local strips into this new book. This is only a slight complaint, as I'd be happy to have a Cul De Sac collection even if the strips were shaved into some fat guy's back hair.

* a downside of non-returnability for prose.

* the cartoonist William Tucci went to France to research a new comic book, and received a very nice award for his trouble.

* the writer Sean T. Collins reminds us that it's summer comic preview season.

* finally, here's an issue that doesn't get as much play as it probably should, seeing as it's one of those ongoing broken things in the Direct Market that never gets fixed and is likely to go on forever: big companies like Marvel that stack books on some weeks and starve the market on others in a way that disrupts both cash flow and the ability to sell books by local comics shops.
 
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