Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonists Dupuy and Berberian have their first press conference as Angouleme Festival winners.

* two more commentaries on issues of serial comics pricing: Dick Hyacinth, Matt Maxwell.

* the publisher Drawn and Quarterly has announced it will expand their John Stanley reprint project.

* the Guardian remembers Will Elder.

* comics super-couple Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer are cleaning house, and you're a potential beneficiary.

* this is very sweet.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco has a lengthy write-up of Paul Pope's appearance in support the Bone exhibit.

* the writer Mark Evanier suggests that the reason Wiley Miller can submit a cartoon congratulating the Reuben Award winner before he's actually named is that everyone knows who it's going to be.

* the artist Mark Bagley covers Sports Illustrated.

* earnings are slightly down at Barnes & Noble; they're exploring a purchase of Borders, anyway.

* afNews says there will be a Little Prince comic by Joann Sfar, but the item to which they're linking make it looks like Sfar is simply penning an introduction to another re-release of the children's book classic.

* must be Andrew Wheeler: Dungeon Monstres Vol. 1" title="a really slow news week at the New York Post">a really slow news week at the New York Post. Really, really slow.

* finally, the writer Sean Collins e-mailed with this observation about Marvel's comics sales:

"Looking at Marvel's top sellers, I see they're spread across virtually every corner of the line: a tie-in, X-Men, Avengers, solo heroes that until recently couldn't get arrested like Thor and Hulk and Captain America, an event comic, Spider-Man. The only weak spot is the Ultimate line and they're gearing up to a big event crossover there. So my theory in that year-end interview we did pans out. It's pretty impressive."

That actually is kind of impressive they're getting sales across the breadth of their line, and I wish I'd noticed it first.
 
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