Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* James Romberger takes a critical look at the new Alex Toth book.

* Todd Klein has a couple of cool posts up here and here about working with the artist Steve Rude on the latest of Klein's series of fancifully-lettered prints.

* the cartoonist Ryan Cecil Smith takes up Frank Santoro's Layout Workbook lessons and applies them to his own work. Professor Santoro has in the meantime moved across campus to take on the subject of color.

* it's weird that I'm looking forward to the event that is DC's future publishing plans more than I am the comics that will make up whatever those plans might be. Here's their equivalent of the comics' "teaser image." They're even launching a prequel/countdown series in June with the Lee/Johns announcement.

* Richard Corben is always awesome.

* whoa, check out this beautiful page of Chris Ware art that's currently being auctioned for charity. Another nice piece of comics-related art -- albeit of a very different kind -- is this page from Lewis Trondheim's Les Petits Riens.

* not comics: I was not aware that Matt Forsythe illustrated a kids' book.

* not comics: David Uzumeri and Chris Sims treat the 1989 Batman movie the way that Batman treats Axis Chemicals in the film: destroying it and everyone inside it with submachine guns and bombs. That's not a good film by any rational measure, and the Comics Alliance pair get in several funny shots. It's also a strange piece, though, in that I think there's an assumption made by both critics that the movie's self-professed shot at a darker Batman somehow means this should have been a deeply serious Batman, and therefore the things like the killer mimes, the Prince music or even Nicholson's general flouncing was some sort of inexplicable failure to achieve this basic standard in a meaningful way. I would suggest that serious and dark aren't always the same things. Hard to argue any point on behalf of a movie that messy and unformed, not to mention so full of awful, awful, awful moments.

* iTunes has improved the searchability of comics by, um... making them searchable. Luckily, Brigid Alverson writes more better than me.

* Scott Pilgrim and permeable boundaries. I liked the piece, but I also really like typing "permeable boundaries."

* finally, over at The Adventures Of Mr. Phil we find a one-page scenes that was redrawn into two pages worth of comics by Enki Bilal.
 
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