Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer and critic Alan David Doane runs into the room and headbutts the comics coverage in Under the Radar's protest issue. You don't see people limiting themselves to a definition of comics that runs from the near end of the DC offices to the far end of the Marvel offices as much as you used to, but it may be more annoying now.

* there's no better way to celebrate America's birth than to listen to Gary Panter on the Leonard Lopate show.

* admittedly, I have no interest in James Bond beyond being happy to see the better films and hoping that his role in the series allows Jeffrey Wright the financial freedom to do more work on stage, but I somehow missed that the character was going to move into an original graphic novel series.

* maybe the greatest mainstream comic evil headquarters cutaway ever.

* not comics: this was cute.

* Sean Phillips does something nice.

* I usually like "taking the piss" posts like this one, but has anyone halfway serious out there ever argued that the real reason why anyone paid attention to the recently reported crappy sales performance of Final Crisis #1 vis-a-vis Secret Invasion #2 was because of a sizable economic hit to the parent company?

* finally, here are a bevy of not-comics links that reminded me of comics issues. This post about a small-press gaming publisher at the traditionally big convention Origins notes the withdrawal of bigger publishers from that event and highlights the fact that they made more money through their on-line avenues than at the show, which is chilling. I wonder if we're seeing a similar shift at comics conventions, or if we will in the near future? Another publisher notes changes and a merger at one of the more successful on-line sales avenues for such products. The interesting notion in this article about the future of publishing suggests that certain categories may move on-line (or already have), something I hadn't considered in terms of comics, where I tend to think of all or nothing -- long-form comics' inability to find an on-line audience may play into what I'm thinking here. Lastly, fond memories of the university bookstore. (A couple of those links were seen here first.)
 
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