Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* you know, I don't miss there being 20 write-up mining the same territory like we had for a while, but if someone's going to be out there doing dyspeptic convention reports, I'm glad it's Matt Maxwell.

* the New Yorker apparently changed the credit on its recent Jack Kirby-related caption contest after some readers felt that without such credit it was more a rip-off of the great comic book artist rather than an homage.

* I forgot to note that Ed Stein's local daily Denver Square ended yesterday. I love final episodes.

* Mike Lynch is off to the NCS national meeting and the Reubens.

* here's a cartoonist claiming sales over $5 million annually, and you've probably never heard of him. While we're talking "successful businessman profiles," here's one about a retailer that got behind the graphic novel as a primary sales force.

* congratulations to Jacob and Liz Covey on the birth of their daughter, Freya Blue.

* an interview with Eric Reynolds has a bit more on Fantagraphics signing an exclusive with Diamond for comics market distribution. I was talking on the phone to someone about this the other day. They asked me what Fantagraphics would have thought at the height of the distribution wars if they learned that they'd be signing their own exclusive deal in 2008, and my first response was "relieved to hear they're still around."

* for what it's worth, there are a couple of pieces out there that either dispute or attempt to logic away claims made in my original article. I don't want to get into a pissing contest with anyone, but of course I stand behind any and all claims made in my piece.

* finally, Wiley Miller goes out on a limb.
 
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