Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* manga giant Viz has acquired four new licenses.

* not comics: the publisher and writer Nat Gertler makes a point or three worth reading about Marvel's freshman year as a movie-maker. I actually didn't mean to suggest that Marvel's had a bad year, but that it seems to me that the PR-driven narrative had already been established about their big, green follow-up to Iron Man and that it might need to be revisited by those writers.

* the cartoonist Chip Zdarsky visits a nude resort and makes a comic out of it.

* folks are looking for the creator of the character at left, who has become quite popular since originally being posted and discussed on-line.

* not comics: I'm told that Peter Milligan co-created this on-line show.

* not comics: the Enki Bilal-created sport of chess-boxing crowns a champion. Someday they'll have an Olympics based on nothing but sports made up by cartoonists, like Calvinball, bird-bath hockey and, of course, competitive wife-beating. That last one might be the least funny comic ever if it weren't for the fact that Andy Capp apparently hangs framed photos of himself in soccer outfits around the house.

* Art Daily discusses the twin Jeff Smith shows being held in Columbus, Ohio right now.

* does Jacob Covey look like Shel Silverstein? I can totally see it.

* the prominent blogger Chris Butcher reprints an English-language interview with Taiyo Matsumoto and runs a bibliography to boot. You should click through if only to stare at the art he uses.

* IDW is going to reprint William Messner-Loebs' Journey in six-issue chunks starting this August, which is awesome, and I hope they get through all of the material. That was a pretty good comic book series, and is fascinating to look at right now because in terms of the creative choices the cartoonist made it seems like it came from a different planet than that which spawned most comics created now. I received this press release as well and can attest to the fact that the image used is the jpeg IDW sent out. This is that cover in non-blurry form. I always liked the Journey covers. Update: Whoa! These are sixteen-issue books, over 400 pages! Never mind about that six-issue thing above. That's a lot of comic, and I'm certain they'll get through all the material now.

* speaking of forthcoming comics, here's the Vertical on-line headquarters for its efforts to reprint all of Black Jack.

* this is more a personal note for me to go back and take a closer look than it is a recommendation you spend time there, but my initial peek at this comments thread indicates a knives-out discussion of the quality of work on Comics Sherpa. This was a good, short discussion of how to read new art comics.

* that is a fine bunch of try-out strips vying for a slot (and only maybe a slot) in the San Francisco Chronicle. Vote early, vote often, vote Cul De Sac.

* finally, Sean Kleefeld is baffled by the rhetorical strategy employed by NPR in presenting its comics reviews.
 
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