Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* here's an interesting piece of art news that I would have missed if not for Robert Boyd. Jeremy Smith has won a Dozier travel grant from the Dallas Museum of Art, which he'll use to go study with Al Columbia. Smith is a former Xeric winner.
* I believe this is the first review I've seen for the North American release of the oddest book I've read this year, and certainly the only trade to be released this summer from a top publishers featuring full-frontal statue nudity: Joe Daly's Dungeon Quest.
* not comics: there's a new CEO at Borders that won the position the new-fashioned way: by investing millions of dollars into the troubled company. They're also apparently betting hard on a new book reader.
* the first line of this review struck me as a profound declaration of comics reading principles in action.
* here's a review of Rich Tommaso's new work, which is noteworthy for the fact that the longtime alternative cartoonist seems to be developing a stronger relationship with his French-language publisher than with any of the folks who are interested in his stuff here in North America.
* finally, while I am absolutely certain there is no right way and wrong way to do these things, one direct market retailer makes the case for stepping away from hardcore alphabetization of new releases. I have a hard time fighting my way through the "wall of comics covers" approach, but I figured that was just senility.
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