Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Greg Hunter on Trash Market. Henry Chamberlain on This Is Cezanne. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Avengers: Rage Of Ultron. Jason Sacks on two stil-recent Retrofit comics.

* the cartoonist and convention organizer Francois Vigneault will be in Montreal this summer, and one thing he'll be doing is making a drawing a day about the experience. You can see the first and figure out how to follow the drawings starting here.

* this article at Editor & Publisher reminds that next year will be 100 years for that award. The editorial cartooning category began in 1922 with a win by Rollin Kirby.

* not comics: here's another article about Jeff Bezos' various tactics to revive the Washington Post using strategies that worked at Amazon.com. It's an important story to watch because both of those companies are significant players in comics, and the eventual form that newspapers take will be crucial for figuring out the next 30 years of the comic strip form -- if it exists, what it looks like. I think if you read it and you have any familiarity with the comics business at all, you'll notice a shared willingness to work content in a number of formats.

* Maria Popova profiles an illustrated version of Song Of Myself.

* one seemingly fruitful strategy that we've seen with digital comics is taking a current sales-hook for serial comics and then slightly in advance marking down a bunch of material that could be in the same ballpark as those new comics, featuring similar storylines, featuring some of the same characters, maybe even previous cycles in a big storyline. It's an interesting move because the sale acts as an advertisement for the new comics, but it also focuses readers on older material in the direct "you should buy this" sense that really seems to work with digital right now. Here's Kevin Melrose with DC's latest attempt at such an effort.

* finally, Jess Fink thanks her former teacher Tom Hart.
 
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