Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Chris Butcher wonders after established publishers using Kickstarter. I think there's an opportunity for everyone to use that service as a pre-order service, but I think once you get into "this won't exist unless you fund it" territory it starts to feel like a total abandonment of what many of us feel is a publisher's basic responsibility to bring capital to the table, not just acumen and relationships. It's going to happen, though. A lot. Soon.

* David Brothers on Amazing Spider-Man #122. That's a nice page. Rob Clough on Black Blizzard. Greg McElhatton on Dare Detectives: The Snow-Pea Plot. Mercer Finn on Sandman. Alan David Doane on David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil Born Again Artist's Edition. Sean Gaffney on Alice In The Country Of Hearts Omnibus Vol. 3. Grant Goggans on The Jikan Chronicles Book Two. J. Caleb Mozzocco on a bunch of comics-shop comics.

* not comics: Bret Easton Ellis used to write letters to Warren magazines. (via Rodrigo Baeza)

* Sarah Glidden drew some people in Brooklyn. I quite like this drawing by Max. That forthcoming Jordan Crane comic looks like a lot of fun. Matt Madden is posting a lot of sketches here these days. Renee French is always awesome. I like this Roman Muradov piece. This is a different style from Matthias Adolfsson.

* not comics: this article on terrible Batman reboots through existing film/TV properties is hilarious only that it's impossible to tell how seriously it's to be taken.

* Chris Marshall talks to Pete Crowther.

* I don't have time this morning to sort this out and attest to its authenticity, so I ask you not to pay attention to the specifics as much as the general shape of the story and take it all with a big grain of salt -- I'll also be happy to run a correction/update if some outside source can attest to something wrong there. I'm linking to it anyway, because I think we should always pay extra, solictioius attention to word of exploitation in comics because comics is soaked in the shameless, casual abuse of creative people up and down the line. Seriously. Like I'm 80 percent sure that what cave drawings we've seen are probably swipes of someone else's cave drawings.

* my apologies to Scott Kurtz for the non-direct aspects of the following, but I have not read the Matthew Dow Smith posts that Johanna Draper Carlson recommends here, and that seems like a pretty good launching point to those pieces if they sound interesting to you.

* I was hoping without much hope that Fantagraphics would pull the trigger on a Spike cover for their Peanuts volumes at some point before it started to be "Oh crap; we only have a few covers left." Well, all right. The line for the Spike resurgence begins over here.

* here's a story on similarities between that horrible-looking movie Ted and a comics effort. I imagine there could be something to it, but at the same time there are concept that are so broadly generic that it's hard to imagine that anyone would need to borrow directly from another iteration of that idea. Like vampire gangsters or something. I noodled on something for years that sounds a lot like the forthcoming movie Looper; it happens.

* D+Q pays tribute to The Montreal Mirror.

* I think the conventional wisdom on DC doing creator-focused ads will be a combination of 1) defense vs. a criticism that it's not a creator-friendly place right now (or perhaps ever), 2) a reaction against Image's successful promotion of individual creator in their similar-looking ads, 3) the fruition of social media, where personal connections count for a lot and it really doesn't work the way would want it to for Snapper Carr to have a twitter account. I have to admit my first though on seeing their first one is Scott Snyder is that they've decided he's their first New 52 era A-list emergent talent, and they want you to know that, too.

* finally, Steven Heller on fumetti.
 
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