Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Eisner Awards has announced its sponsor and presenters lists for the 25th annual version, to take place Friday, July 19 over at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Convention Center. I always like these lists because it provides a snapshot of who is involved in the comics industry in that specific way year to year -- in some cases, who has something to advertise/promote; in other cases, who has money to spend on something like this.

+ Syfy is the title sponsor. Mycomicshop.com is the major sponsor. Principal sponsors are comiXology, Gentle Giant Studios, Lebonfon. Supporting sponsors are Alternate Reality Comics, Atlantis Fantasyworld, Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., Flying Colors, Tate's Comics, Warp 1 Comics & Games and Mel Thompson and Associates. Baby Tattoo sponsors the Spirit Of Retailing Award. The Bill Finger Award has DC Comics as a major sponsor with Maggie Thompson and Heritage Auctions as supporting sponsors. Comic-Con International itself is listed as underwriting the whole affair.

+ Jonathan Ross, Neil Gaiman, John Barrowman, Chris Hardwick, Becky Cloonan, Sergio Aragones, Bill Morrison, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom and David Herman are among the presenters announced in that release. Barrowman and Hardwick seem like naturals for this kind of thing; Ross and Gaiman are HoF presenters; the HoF of comics awards presenters is probably named after Aragones.

I used to flip through comic book and make lists of advertisers driven by the same nerdy impulse, but almost no one advertises in comic books anymore.

* Derek Royal on Jerusalem: A Family Portrait. Richard Bruton on The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil.

* the great Renee French draws Annie Koyama.

* here is one site's list of best Avengers stories of all time. People really like that one where Hercules gets beat within an inch of his life, although I thought that a pretty ordinary comic book story. There aren't a whole lot of great stories from that series, but I would tend to settle on the Steve Englehart stuff -- the "Celestial Madonna" and "Avengers Vs. Defenders" storylines -- as worth reading for the importance of their simmering subplot structure to how stories have been told sense and the general attention to Kirby-style power levels, which I wish we'd see more of. I'm also fond of Avengers #26-27, which fascinated me as a kid because of its straight-forward treatment of the weakened "Cap's Avengers" Avengers line-up. It is strange there are like 50 Fantastic Four stories that I'd want to read again before any Avengers, though.

* Patrick Dean remembers downtown Athens.

* Jodi Bernet draws The Man With No Name.

* Brian Truitt talks to Dan Slott. Steve Morris talks to Gary Northfield. JK Parkin talk to Robert Venditti. Slim and Jake talk to Garth Ennis.

* Bob Powell + Howard Nostrand = Mainstream Comics Magic.

* Alex Toth and Paolo Rivera via the very active Internet presence of writer Brian Bendis. I like the mainstream guys that basically just toss images up on-line through twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. There's so much good material that a lot of fans don't see, and to have folks like that basically saying "Look at this" is likely to be a boon to some young comics reader's life-long relationship to the medium.

* I love the look of this space they used at CAKE to interview Kim Deitch.

* finally, Dan Turner asks after the wisdom of podcasting about comics.
 
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