Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I heard from several folks including PictureBox's Dan Nadel that the pre-pay model Nadel kind of nudged out there Wednesday night has plenty of antecedents, and may be very common in the future in the way it protects or encourages the maker to back certain projects. It sounds like a good deal.

* nothing about this sounds like a good deal to me.

* the New York Times' book blog takes news about some new comics-related Penguin classics covers to talk briefly about classic prose adaptations. I hadn't seen the Lilli Carre Huck Finn cover before.

* there's not a whole lot left in the Wizard of IO at Diamond thing. There's an essay here that may be worth reading for some of you because it comes from a mainstream American comics-centric point that is pretty far divorced from my own, and yet there's still some agreement on this issue, or at least some of the same questions being asked. I don't think Diamond's evil, I think they've done a lot of things well and they have the capacity to do a lot of other things well. I just think this is bad policy and indicative of an unfortunate general orientation.

* the cartoonist and web-thinker Scott McCloud suggests that devices like the Kindle have the default screen size wrong.

* missed it: Neilalien's description of the original Wizard of IO essay cracks me up. (thanks, everyone who sent it)

* I'm with Gary Tyrrell (I think I'm agreeing with him) that the thought of newspapers going to paid content is such a longshot that considering comics' role in such a model isn't really a fruitful enterprise.

* finally, there's a fine three part interview with Alan Moore over at the FPI blog, albeit one of the more rambling ones you're likely to come across. Moore is generally worth reading and a long one like this tends to be required if you're a fan of the writer.
 
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