Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* when I'm 75 years old, I want to be writing articles like this RC Harvey piece on Zack Moseley.

* here's a news story (or, if you prefer, a "news story") that developed from a snippet release from the forthcoming TCJ interview with Marice Sendak. Here's an appreciation of the artist that ran in the New York Review Of Books. I suppose I could get a whole post out of Maurice Sendak wishing death on the previous president and vice-president, but treating it like a big story just because we live in silly enough times this is so seems dispiriting.

* Augie De Blieck, Jr. on Daredevil: Born Again Artist's Edition. Brandon Soderberg on Bowman 2016. Rob Clough on Take What You Can Carry. Kristian Williams on Too Much Coffee Man #1 (Facsimile Edition).

* I beg your forgiveness in advance if this gets stuck in your head.

* I love these old L&R advertisements.

* not comics: Ira Glass writes about the decision facing NPR programmers faced with the decision whether or not to run re-runs of the immensely popular program Car Talk, now ending first-run program with its hosts retiring. I think he's right -- hanging onto re-runs in what are essentially primetime slots is a failure of their mission as public broadcaster and bad business in the long term. I feel that a similar short-sightedness existed in comics when Peanuts retired and went into reruns after the death of its creator. I thought that should have had a limited shelf life and then the popular comics feature should have been used as a way to test new technologies and alternative platforms. We live in a hyper-capitalist world that demands immediate and maximum reward, though, so this kind of thing is almost impossible.

* did you know that the Comics.org people are putting together a birthdays resource? Well, now you do.

* not comics: no idea where these two pictures of New York's Time Square came from, but they're sort of interesting. Which building did Luke Cage work in?

* a reader whose name I can't remember wrote in to say that they enjoyed these three webcomics. I like that someone sent me that kind of note. Thank you!

* Dean Haspiel talks to a bunch of people. Bernard Crowsheet talks to Frank Cho. Robin McConnell talks to Nicolas Mahler.

* Kiel Phegley talks to the new Team Valiant about their rollout. There's a lot of weird stuff going on in the Direct Market right now in terms of retailers taking chances on stuff just a degree or two off of hardcore mainstream. I'm not sure why that is. It could be that there's simply more of that stuff right now, or it could be that there's some dissatisfaction with the content being generated by the two major players.

* finally, Big Planet Comics is running a preview of Xoc. Here's the book that will be coming out.
 
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