Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this review of A Drifting Life at the Los Angeles Times reminds that it should perhaps be considered a wider history than it's often given credit for being, given the parameters of author Yoshihiro Tatsumi's life.

* the Kitty Pryde-related fundraiser for Oregon Hemophilia Treatment Center organized by Floating World has reached the eBay phase, which means they're selling on eBay the portraits of the character that haven't been purchased and you get the chance to have a nice piece of art from a creator and help out a deserving institution. The headquarters for all of this is here. The eBay listings can be found here. That's Ross Campbell's work reprinted with this post. Here's a photo array from the show.

* the cartoonist Daryl Cagle offers up a cartoon that didn't seem to hit with as many readers as others he's done might have.

* Mike Baehr takes me back to working at Fantagraphics in the late '90s when one of the peculiar joys of working there was this amazing original art work that would come in. People would sometimes drive in at night on their own time to look at a specific project or two that interested them when the place was quieter and you could have a table all to yourself on which to put the stuff. It was very instructive to see some of the art that way, and nearly always pleasurable.

* the writer Warren Ellis writes a little bit on promoting comics right now.

* comics-ensconced couple Shaenon Garrity and Andrew Farago visit the Akihabara district of Tokyo. If there were a North American equivalent to which I could compare it, it would be in this sentence.

* not comics: someone e-mailed me a link to this blog that I guess is dedicated to the movie version of the great Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are. That's a mighty book of sort-of, almost comics, so I imagine the blog could be of interest to many of you.

* finally, I really liked this piece in Reason on Little Orphan Annie by Brian Doherty, although I have to say I love reading a ton of Annie all at once (a year is about right) and I've never found the strip more disingenuous taking that much of it in at once.
 
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