Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics news portal Newsarama keeps writing about Tokyopop; Lea Hernandez continues to kick the company's prone, public form.

* in strange industry news that involves Bob Harvey, Meanwhile... the blog received a Harvey nomination that was mean for Meanwhile... the book; this will now be corrected. The weird thing is I get the impression this was noticed mostly or perhaps solely because of the time travel necessary to make the blog eligible. Does this happen in other art forms? Could two such different works be confused like that?

* behold the horrors of the Judge Judy fumetti.

* the retailer Brian Hibbs and the Savage Critics contributor Jeff Lester write about last weekend's Rory Root memorial.

* Rob Tornoe is live-blogging the AAEC convention.

* I'm back all the way home -- my home -- for the first time in a l-o-o-o-ong time, and read this book in the bookstore while waiting for the shuttle. First thing: reading comics in the bookstore without having anyone come over and yell at you is kind of awesome. Second thing: this comic book was fairly gross. Everybody was on 'roids, and it was violent and depressing.

* the reviewer and occasional pundit Don MacPherson would have really liked to have written an article on subscription services at comics companies.

* two of comicdom's most respected pundits weigh in on two broad industry talking points of the moment: Brian Hibbs on the Tokyopop restructuring/collapse; Steven Grant on recent DC numbers, Dan DiDio and speculation of his firing.

* finally, Lynn Johnston will attend and be featured at this year's Doug Wright Awards. Here's the press release: DWA_2008_release_final.doc. Somehow I missed the news that Johnston is going to end-end her strip, or at least its new installments, early this Fall (as measured by returning to school if not the actual seasons). Given how many times we've been given dates for the For Better or Worse new strips ending, I'm not sure whether to believe that statement or not. Although it's true that a September ending date should give Johnston enough time to completely destroy her character Elizabeth's life.
 
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