Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to Matt Dembicki for his Trickster winning the Southwest Book Design and Production Award in the graphic novels category as well as Best Of Show.

* the writer and academic Charles Hatfield reviews Paying For It. Hatfield has enjoyed a lengthy critical relationship to Chester Brown's work, and his is one of the reviews to which I've been most looking forward.

* Vera Brosgol lays out a pretty thorough process post here.

* here's a retailer roundtable related to DC's announcement of a line-wide relaunch including same-day digital. And here's the relaunch as some kind of poster.

* Sean Kleefeld asks after folks' comics-buying habits. I think he's right in suggesting we may see a delayed negative effect related to the economy not recovering as opposed to it going south in the first place -- kind of a comic book industry equivalent of Gannet's personnel cuts earlier this week.

* finally, Abhay Khosla and a bunch of writers from Savage Critics continue their batting around of the two mainstream comics events, Fear Itself (Marvel) and Flashpoint (DC Comics). As someone with almost no appetite for those kinds of comics presently, I find these sort of rambling commentaries very useful. I always wonder if thoroughness of the discussion -- that a group of smart people would spend so much time talking about Thomas Wayne -- does more to distort the value of those comics than the content of what's being said.
 
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