Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if you're not in San Diego this morning and find yourself wanting the experience of learning something about an aspect of comics to which you've had very little exposure, most of you out there could learn something from these posts from Matt Blind about starting up a graphic novel bookstore.

* missed it: there is an excellent short interview with the great Rick Altergott here. It's funny: I've always liked Rick's work but when he came to the attention of alt-comics fans in the late 1990s a significant number of them hated him. During a time when there were so few rewards in cartooning simply being published by Fantagraphics for whatever pennies they could heroically squeeze from a self-immolating market seemed like a Nobel Prize in and of itself, I grew used to savage commentary regarding Altergott whenever I spent time in the company of comics fans. This happens every so often, actually -- Johnny Ryan went through the same cycle -- but I've never seen it stronger than it was with Altergott. Super-nice guy as well as being obviously talented, too. I still can't figure out what they were talking about.

* not comics: I'm not sure why I was up at 3:07 AM looking at pictures of bento boxes on images.google.com, but if I hadn't been doing that I wouldn't have come across this piece of adorableness.

* the designer Khoi Vinh looks at the over-sized tabloid projects The Big Funny and Wednesday Comics, probably not the last time those two will be placed in the same sentence.

* a belated happy fifth blogday to Matt Maxwell, joining Jog (and lots of others, of course) in the half-decade club.

* Steven Gettis wrote in to say he's recently linked to a whole bunch of Alex Toth-related material through his Twitter feed.

* the artist Frank Santoro describes a recent trip to New York to learn and to teach, noting that no one he knows is going to Comic-Con or even talking about it.

* finally, here's a gateway post to a documentary about those handsome comics-related wall murals in Belgium.
 
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