Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* longtime industry observer Augie De Blieck has harsh words for the arbitrary restrictions that Direct Market retailers can place on publishers through the extreme narrow focus of what they'll carry and why.

* I can't vouch for it, but apparently you can own a piece of John Stanley decorative art if you bid the right amount at the right time at the right place.

* I tried to read this Kiel Phegley interview with DC Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio three times before quitting out of boredom and slight frustration. There's very little of substance there. The duo won't talk about anything concrete, anything that's a success they (surprise) want to see more of and anything that's perceived as not a success is either shrugged past or explained as a failure of imagination (or contextualization) by the people making that judgment. They seem like nice men, but unless you have a baseball hat fetish, or until they start making public plans for the future that have proper nouns in them, I don't see how things like this interview and the round of "town hall meetings" they represent would lead anyone to believe that DC is a substantially different place than it was a year ago, or have confidence that it will be a substantially different place by actions of their own making three, five, seven years from now. In fact, I bet you could change a dozen words with save and replace and pass it off as a 1998 interview with Paul Levitz and Bob Wayne.

* David Brothers re-reads Final Crisis so I don't have to. My memory is that I liked the parts with Frankenstein in them.

* come on, Mike Manley! For some of us, summer doesn't start until we get to watch you put a steel toe to the fleshy male posterior that is Wizard's con in Philadelphia.

* another satisfied customer dept.: Dear Southwestern US Comic Book Shop. If I'm in a super-hurry and I ask for modern comic bags and boards and you repeat, "you want the modern ones, right?" back to me, and I say "yeah, not the silver ones but the modern ones" and then you very quickly stuff a package of silver age comic bags into my bag anyway, it's on me for not double-checking. And they work, sure. It's not a big deal. I still won't buy anything at your store ever again.

* Johanna Draper Carlson speaks out against giving to certain kinds of Kickstarter projects. I'll have more on this in a couple of days if I can collect my thoughts on the matter.

* remembering Al Williamson with art.

* the writer and critic Graeme McMillan talks about the number of really good comics works that go out of print. I think I'd disagree with Graeme in that comics has a pretty good record of keeping things in print, and that this is even a particular strength of the traditional, pre-1990 comics publishers. Still, there are always some books that slip through the cracks.

* finally, DC has posted Chip Kidd's introduction for the forthcoming big-fancy edition of All Star Superman.
 
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