May 28, 2009
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* new Reuben Award winner Dave Coverly was nice enough to take time away from signing autographs and fielding/avoiding calls from various high-school girlfriends and state senators to send a note to this site a couple days back. Unfortunately, it was to note that we were wrong in suggesting that Coverly was the first Creators Syndicate winner of the Reuben -- Mike Luckovich is with Creators, and he won in 2005. We regret the error and are mortified by the nature of our first exchange with the reigning King Reuben.
* young comics industry person Brendan Wright visits
Isotope and
Comic Relief, two of comics' best stores.
He wrote about it and also took photos, like this one of an Osamu Tezuka end display at CR.
* longtime comics interviewer Alex Deuben did
this solid piece with Bob Fingerman at Suicide Girls.
* after recently offering its first comic based on a new, licensed, hopes-to-be-leveraged property, Fantagraphics
announced what I'm guessing is its first publishing project with an immediate cross-media tie-in, an animated web series from Dash Shaw to appear on IFC.com. Comics is too all over the place these days to be surprised by anything anymore, but I hope this means next week we see them announce something like a line of graphic novels based on on the novels of Steven Millhauser.
* finally, the writer Didier Pasamonik
covers the opening of the new Musee Herge, noting (I think) that there are 300 originals on display. I'm curious about the film version: "boy reporter in adventures all around the world" passes (although doesn't crush) my Iron Man/Green Lantern test of "does it sounds like a film I can present to someone in three sentences or less while we're eating hot wings and watching a basketball game on cable?" But there's so much about what makes Herge's presentation unique that one wonders about it appealing in translated form.
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