June 6, 2008
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* the critic Katherine Farmar presents
her list of top ten comics characters. My list is Wimpy, the gorilla from
Cromartie High School, the Entropy Twins and the Marvel versions
of the cast from the Doc Savage movie.
* the prominent retailer Buddy Saunders
sure loves him some Scorchy Smith, and the new collection specifically. Admittedly, this is a fine choice for something to crush on.
*
a breakdown of revenues and losses at Scripps provides a summary of fortunes in the newspaper business right now. If you're a newspaper person and haven't looked at a print publication's classifieds section in a while, it's pretty shocking. When I was a kid, my father worked at a newspaper and we got free classifieds and this was considered a hugely beneficial thing -- our garage sales ruled the neighborhood. It's weird to think of that element of a paper going the way of the TV listings and other things that have fled on-line.
*
worst crime story ever!
* finally, people are still trying to track down the strange rumor of
an ignored, verbally made but not written down anywhere Kodansha announcement that they're getting into publishing in America. This is like that weird alt-weekly article from the mid-1990s that claimed Warners had secretly filmed a
Green Lantern movie starring Mel Gibson and Edward James Olmos, right?
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