Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Marc Arsenault has perhaps discovered the greatest comics-friendly airport bookstore of all time.

* Bob Levin on Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons. Rob Clough on Leo Geo And His Miraculous Journey Through The Center Of The Earth. Sean Gaffney on One Piece Vol. 63, Alice In The Country Of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz Vol. 1, Olympos, Hetalia: Axis Powers Vol. 3 and Attack On Titan Vol. 1. Grant Goggans on Underwater Welder. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Flowers Of Evil Vol. 1 and Wolverine And The Black Cat: Claws Vol. 2. Paul Gravett on various newer works.

* I couldn't find a second or a third comic I liked in the small press/artist's alley sections of Sand Diego Con to make a fourth "Three Books You Could Buy" article -- I tried, I swear -- which means I didn't get to recommend the CBLDF's "illustrated story on a series of t-shirts" effort described here.

* Ryan Holmberg profiles Osamu Tezuka's relationship to American comics.

* some nice person at MTV Geek talks to Alex Cox.

* hey, we're a nation of strident morons. Seriously.

* someone suggested I scroll down to the numbers reprinted in this article, particularly the ones related to various Vertigo comics, and yow. Those aren't good numbers for anything with corporate support -- and thus corporate overhead -- and a lot of those numbers seems to be careening down the charts in terms of burnout on title not just Vertigo-related. What's curious to me about that is that it's not like the overall numbers have declined, which leads me to believe we have a market that favors early-issue numbers in some demented way that doesn't really have a thing to do with content of the same, and that the DM may either depend on or being subject to a constant priming of issue numbers in order to keep afloat. Okay, I hear you laughing, because everyone already knew this, but I'm not sure I knew that-knew that. It strikes me as a fundamentally sick market that does that, and one with not enough in terms of a raw readership. It also strikes me as one susceptible to mass on-line migration at some point.

* Fantagraphics rounds up a bunch of coverage of Los Bros Hernandez.

* Penny Arcade would really like to go ad free.

* finally, Paul Gravett digs into the British comics boom for an article on two decades' worth of adventure comics. It was apparently for an exhibit.
 
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