July 3, 2009
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* I like
Kyle Garret's write-up on Grant Morrison's recent appearance at Meltdown Comics more than any other I've yet read.
* it's hardly news, but the color in these Richard Sala
Delphine Ignatz-format books
is really pretty.
* Dan Nadel
writes about Grant Morrison and some of his recent superhero works.
*
Tucker Stone interviews Dirk Deppey.
* not comics: there are
brand new Bone t-shirts. I liked the original Bone t-shirts quite a bit. Comics t-shirts of the indy/alt variety never sold really well for most folks, but those might have been an exception.
* the writer and longtime industry observer Mark Evanier
weighs in on the Harvey Awards discussion out there.
* I'm not sure what to make of an attempted running re-launch
for Wowio. Luckily, Sean Kleefeld digs in.
* during this week's previously-mentioned discussion of the Harvey Awards, I fairly skipped over
this little gem about the Geppi companies filling in ballots for employees in past years. Wow, that's... ugh.
* finally, I have to say that the conversation surrounding the legitimacy of these awards was disappointing to me, even by the low standards of issues-discussion in comics. I think it's important to separate issues of "I don't like those nominations" from questions over whether or not the awards have a place, and work, and should continue to be supported. But most people don't feel that way, and there was the usual weird argumentation over whether or not comic X could conceivably, arguably be good enough to be nominated. The facts are, those awards have never taken hold
according to the standard they've selected to distinguish themselves, at some point an awards show is defined by low turnout and all the goofy incidents surrounding it more than the reflected glory of its namesake and some projected future for it asserted in an Internet posting, no one has come close to making a counter-argument for what those awards do well, and as the years build up a broken show fails in greater and greater fashion to honor the people it's out to honor. It's not about taking such awards over-seriously as much as being matter-of-fact about how they function, particularly relative to one another. I still hope they end, but it's not like they really exist now in any significant way.
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