Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the French-language comics site ActuaBD.com has a short piece up on the ten-year anniversary of Les Editions la Pasteque, an impressive effort from Quebec inspired by France's L'Association.

* the San Diego Reader comes through with another copiously illustrated article on the comics industry's relationship with the city. Image Comics gets the treatment this time up, including a long comic on their origin that killed me several times. That's Rob Liefeld being portrayed in the inset.

* whoa, check out the fartbox on the role-model!

* PWCW has what looks like the first in what should probably be about a half-dozen to a dozen "has San Diego Con lost it?" articles to come out between now and Labor Day.

* the prominent manga-blogger Brigid Alverson has two pieces out there worth tracking down: this interview with Misako Takashima; this primer on tone work.

* is Blade not a superhero now?

* this came up on a standard google search and has nothing to do with comics, but the struggles of used bookstores to carve out a place in their cities and remain viable in the post-Amazon, post-Abebooks world likely has lessons to teach the comics industry.

* finally, after posting in this section yesterday on sporting events created by cartoonists, an alarming number of you wrote in to castigate me for neglecting to mention Steve Purcell's Fizzball: described here, pictured a bit here. I might object in that I never considered my 1991 creation "bowling in my rental house's kitchen into beer bottles set against a wall" a sport, nor the related activity of "getting screamed at by my roommate after he came back from his girlfriend's university Sunday night," but Fizzball does have rules and I was using the whole thing as a set-up for a cheap Reg Smythe joke, so I should probably just shut up.
 
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