Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* all eyes to Charlotte. Actually, all eyes won't be going to Charlotte in the traditional sense of big publishing announcement -- HeroesCon isn't that kind of show. What it is, though, is a fairly sizable gathering of mostly mainstream folks in a year where talk of Creator's Right and generally what it means to work in comics are fevered topics. So... all ears on Charlotte. As for the show itself, I'd say you could do much worse than walking around this section like 50 times.

* Tom Bondurant writes on Paul Kirk and Manhunter. I always thought that early '70s favorite was intriguing for the fan mechanisms that made it a well-known thing. I mean, I was in Indiana, didn't follow DC books at all, and, for that matter, was a child, and somehow I still learned that that was supposedly one of the good ones and I needed to read it.

* the Bleeding Cool site has a list of books they say are being put into the Direct Market system as kind of a unofficial liquidation of that particular stock. Lot of good books there to check for in your local store. I have no idea what it would mean for a company like DC to be reducing the size of their list in this fashion, whether that's routine or this should send up some sort of colored flag.

* Alex Dueben talks to Joseph Remnant and Jeff Newelt. Ron Marz talks to Darryl Banks. Alex Zalben talks to Caitlin R. Kiernan.

* not comics: Marc Arsenault stumbles across some Gary Panter art and would like to share it with you.

* not comics: not sure why I bookmarked this photo of Jesse Pearson with Dwight Gooden, but there you go. I'm also unclear about what exactly I intended to do with this picture.

* Rob Clough on a bunch of various comic-book comics.

* finally, the nice folks at Casablanca Comics have scanned/photographed the 1971 NYT Magazine article on relevant comics, one of probably ten big, popular articles from that era that focus on comics. It's by Saul Braun, one of those names that turns up every so often in stories about New York publishing in the 1960s: I think he was probably getting at the Marvel stuff through a relationship to the Martin Goodman magazines and their writers, although that's a hunch. I always liked that photo of Stan Lee.
 
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