Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Wizard site has a feature up on on the best creative collaborations during the publication's history, which of course means that it's the best superhero-related creative collaborations during the publication's history (don't even start -- Karasik/Mazzucchelli; I win) with a couple of high-end genre pieces thrown in for variety. Still, most of those comics are solid, and it could be handy if you're not well-read on that side of the comics store.

* here's a succinct update on the sales situation facing the troubled book retailer Borders. Basically, there's nothing of substance on Borders' end, and exploratory-only on suspected-to-be-of-interest B&N's end.

* the writer Paul Di Filippo forwarded this snippet of a posting to me from a list to which he belongs.

At 7:53 p.m. Sunday, the Phoenix landed on Mars on a plateau called Vasitas Borealis, a few miles from the Martian polar ice cap.

On board is a disc containing my name [and that of about 299,999 others], but more importantly, also on the disc are a series of Mars images from US comic strips, pulps, animation, and fiction; the work of many talented earth-bound writers and artists.

Included is a Winsor McCay 1910 Little Nemo featuring an airship powered by a giant bird ferrying Nemo and friends to Mars, and a poster from the 1936 Flash Gordon serial.

Comic books are represented by the Wally Wood cover to Weird Science #17 [01-02/1953] and an Adam Hughes Martian Manhunter...

That's right: comics on Mars.

* there's a huge thread at the Daily Cartoonist where webcomics cartoonists and newspaper cartoonists gripe at each other that's fairly entertaining if you like that kind of thing.

* how on God's green earth did this tiny incident merit a lengthy wire story? For all I know, the cartoonist being accused is the biggest idea thief in the world, but I'm not convinced from the evidence presented that this is stealing, let alone the kind of stealing about which you write articles. People come up with the same, broad jokes all the time. Kevin Nealon did a TV special once where he told the exact same joke I'd been telling for about six years. It's like when someone makes a vampire mobster movie and there are people disappointed because that was totally their idea and it must have been stolen. At least they cleared up in the headline it was a man making the accusation as opposed to a cartoon-making robot.

* this is the funniest thing I read all weekend. Also, they're apparently replacing Kiel Phegley at Indie Jones with someone that hasn't paid attention to alt-comics since 1999.

* finally, Thelma Keane passed away. She was the wife of cartoonist Bil Keane, mother of cartoonist Jeff Keane, and the inspiration for that strip's Mommy character. One weird thing is that many of the pieces I've seen refer to Jeff Keane as helping Bil Keane on the strip; I wasn't aware anyone was pretending that Jeff Keane wasn't the primary forced behind that strip now. At least that's what I've been led to believe.
 
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