Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's text of the speech given by one of the CCS graduates and photos of the ceremony.

* is Stan Lee the donor of the LOC Spider-Man pages?

* the original art to the classic Wally Wood EC cover pictured at left recently went for $200K in auction. That's like 1600 copies of Kramer's Ergot #7. (thanks, Scott Dunbier)

* the writer Matt Maxwell on the Emerald City convention from eight and nine days ago. (one, two)

* this is a lovely reminiscence about Will Elder, by William Stout.

* say it ain't so: Cromartie High School on the missing manga list.

* wait-a-minute dept.: if the addition of Mort Walker's IMCA holdings to the OSU Research Library doubles the holdings of the latter, can the IMCA claim to be the biggest repository of original art in North America?

* I greatly enjoyed this blog post on a project helmed by Vince Fago, the one-time, informal but never titled editor-in-chief at Martin Goodman's comics company.

* this short article talks about the appearance of a slab and grade company at a local comics show, asserting that if you want to take your collection seriously, you need to use this system. No, you really don't.

* here's a really interesting blog post/article by Steve Duin about the number of comics and comics-related tomes that are part of freshman reading programs. Comics or no comics, I'm really glad they didn't have reading programs like this when I was in school.

* finally, more on what the Fantagraphics/Diamond deal means for small press sales representative Tony Shenton, by Von Allan. I hope to follow up with Shenton if my schedule allows it and he's amenable, but while it's unfortunate that anyone who's someone's friend or who's a good guy or who has fought the fight for a long time loses his job or a significant part of it, it seems to me that Shenton had that gig long enough for Fantagraphics to make a fair judgment over what direction they want to go in the future. The effectiveness of sales reps in comics is historically difficult to gauge because there's not enough stability in sales to figure out exactly what it is a sales rep adds to the bottom line, particularly when you get to the issue of how many of those sales would have been made anyway. I guess we'll see.
 
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