Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I didn't catch this at all: Image is going to start using DC's ratings system to label their books. Apparently, the videogame-like DC standards provide the most clarity of the options considered by Image.

* there's a fun, almost breezy interview with Gary Groth lurking somewhere on the new Comic Book Resources site. I'm not sure if there's anything newsworthy -- saying that Fantagraphics should have most of their books available in digital form a year from now is just a shade too vague for me to consider it hard news, although others will disagree -- but it's fun to hear Groth hold forth on recent comics news stories. It's also the deepest he's gone into his reasons for changing things up at The Comics Journal.

* not comics: Gannett is laying off 700 employees. USA Today won't feel the effect, but they'll fire about 700 employees across their other newspaper holdings. It's the economy, apparently.

* Aspen has secured its digital partner.

* First Second is doing a giveaway for Solomon's Thieves. That was a pretty good book, very by-the-numbers Disney-type entertainment (hey, my opinion) but done with a significant amount of craft and verve. I would have devoured it when I was a lad.

* I keep on forgetting to link to that Thor/Muppets mash-up that people are crazy about. FPI blog reminded me.

* if you were going to draw up a list of cartoonists to interview right this very second, you wouldn't get too far in before you listed the team of Ruppert and Mulot.

* finally, the fact that Borders has basically been a financial four-alarm fire for the last several months may have diverted attention that Barnes & Noble hasn't been posting good numbers as of late.
 
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