Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there's a video trailer for a Grant Morrison documentary showing up in various link-to or embed-here forms. I'm going to go link-to and direct you here.

* artist Stefan Dinter writes in to point out German creators are gearing up for Munich's Comicfestival, and that they've thrown their hat in to the ring for coolest comics show venue. "This'll take place at the old Rathaus in the center of the city from june 11 through 14," he writes. "The venue is really cool, a medieval structure with an arched wooden ceiling, painted with the coats of arms of munich's rulers through the ages." Plus they have beer. I think this it, here. Sounds cool, anyway.

* this is only tangentially related to comics in that one of the licensing avenues for the cartoon character Emily The Strange has been comic books, but news of a lawsuit trying to prevent the character's obvious inspiration from claiming that relationship or seeking remuneration at some future date strikes me as gross as it likely strikes most people commenting on it this morning. If there were some kind of Court of Common Sense, the case would be decided against the later character in like 10 seconds, but there isn't, so I imagine this could work. There are examples out there of people complaining they thought up certain generic concepts like "teen vampires" or "magic school" or that some comic strip writer grinding out his 7256th gag has totally ripped off a gag already written by someone else on, say, sandwiches, and now must pay, but this seems to me an entirely different creature. Here's the "hey, look at that" that may have started the whole thing.

* the shop Desert Island is having a fundraiser on Memorial Day for its forthcoming comics publication. All the details here.

* the writer Steven Grant goes on at length on the presumption of the freelancer as a creative agent of control.

* the retailer and occasional pundit Brian Hibbs talks about an interesting aspect of the Direct Market system. Since the retailer catalogs are items of public consumption when it comes to plot points and the manipulation of said plot points can drive publicity, Marvel is keeping secret the content of a title they're asking retailers to order in large amounts. Hibbs is walking away, but almost no one else will.

* finally, you can learn about how to submit work to the Best American Comics series here. If you do work or publish work, I can't imagine it'd hurt to submit.
 
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