Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if you have a chance to do so, please attend Bob Levin's book signing tonight and support his great new book Most Outrageous.

* here's probably the most interesting piece I've read today: Chris Staros talks about his recent experience at a Swedish version of SPX, and announces his company will work in partnership with a Swedish alt-publisher and publish both an anthology of that work (From The Shadow Of The Northern Lights, left) and several of the more prominent practitioners. The FPI blog talks about the piece here.

* Naruto slightly up, Jeff Kinney slightly down on the latest USA Today charts. Up or down this, they're both doing great in general, of course.

* Mort Walker talks about the deal his International Museum of Cartoon Art has reached with OSU's Comics Research Library to create the largest comics art resource in the entire world. Also included is a description of the museum's many moves, both real and aborted.

* Time Warner or Warner Bros. or whatever they're called these days is allowing one of the disputed charity auctions to go forward. I heard from a couple of people yesterday when I wrote that I couldn't see the objection to Warner corporate shutting the kind of thing down that noted that what was annoying was the capricious nature of shutting this one group of things down instead of dozens of other similar violations arising from the legal issues involved, and that as a charity effort it should have been granted greater consideration, not singled out.

* the retailer Brian Hibbs has moved his Tilting at Windmills feature to Comic Book Resources and starts well with a full look at the Fantagraphics/Diamond announcement. About the only thing I'd question is his assumption that Fantagraphics is eating the difference for the new sales discount; Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics told CR they were actually receiving a better percentage from Diamond under this new deal, which indicates that Diamond is eating that difference, not matter how unlikely that sounds. It could be that they were talking about slightly different thing, or I just didn't understand what I was asking or the answer I was given, though.

* finally, with the "we need hot authors" story yesterday and now this, I think it's safe to say that the book industry is gross. Also, I think TCJ may now pay more than PW for reviews.
 
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