Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* hey, Mike Manley! Where's that Wizard World Philly report? You're killing me.

* here's the first part of a promised two-part article about Wally Wood and the origins of Warren's Creepy magazine. This came to me in an e-mail, which usually means someone had it first. I apologize to that person.

* where to put most of your word balloons, to make things easier for you and the reader. (I hope Bryan Lee O'Malley does a bunch of these.)

* the cartoonist Thom Zahler talks about what it's like to be behind the table at Comic-Con. I worked behind a table for 30 minutes one time, and then Gus Norman came by and offered to get me into trouble and off I went, never to work behind one again. I got yelled at twice in those 30 minutes, though, and a guy that looked like Benny Hill sporting a squirrel tail asked me if Fantagraphics published any furry porn. I could tell he smelled like a pencil eraser, even with a table stacked to the nines with issues of Grit Bath, Pressed Tongue and Rollercoaster separating us. A full weekend of that would have broken me, and my hat's off to all you table warriors out there.

* commercial interlude: I guess CCI has been doing some four-day pass contest-style giveaways and plans to do more through the advertisement on top of this column and others like it elsewhere. The PR is here.

* this headline made me laugh.

* Jim Kingman writes about the late 1970s DC Comics Explosion/Implosion, an event that fascinates me the way that all news stories just out of my memory's reach fascinate me.

* the talented Kristy Valenti's nice-as-all-heck note reminds me that I have got to stop writing parts of this blog while I'm high.

* here's a link to the sale of a Paul Pope limited print with enough other Paul Pope content you'll have fun if you like Pope but don't feel like buying a print.

* I would kill for more specific scene reporting like we get out of a couple of the Portland blogs, from the New York folks and from Mike Rhode in the Greater DC area.

* the comics writer and cartoonist (people forget Nancy) Jerry Scott on his influences.

* finally, John Calnan is alive.
 
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