Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Editor Mike Dean's introduction is distracting and silly -- it's not 1983, you can cover multiple stories on-line and many people do -- but an International Blog aggregating service or hosting service or whatever its final shape will be is an awesome idea and exactly the kind of service the Journal should be pursuing and providing. Congrats to the Journal on a ground-breaking venture. I hope it comes off half as good as the one I'm envisioning in my head. Very exciting.

* as I think everyone and their mother suspected, although with all respect to a moderately-sized publisher like Oni and the way one approaches giant print runs these days, the latest and last Scott Pilgrim comic sold out of its initial, 100K print run. I hope every attention is paid to SP as publishing success story, even as that success has become intertwined with anticipation of the movie.

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com has an interview up with David Glanzer that's must reading for industry-heads even if you don't go anywhere near a "Collective Memory." I believe him when he says he thought there would be a decision on 2013 by now. It seems to me that it all comes down to whether or not San Diego steps to the plate, as that seems to me the only part of the story that could still be developing, if you see what I'm saying. I'm unabashedly pro-San Diego, even as I wonder if my opinion should mean anything at all.

* you've all seen this, right?

* I've been enjoying this list-like series of appreciation posts over at 4thletter!, partly because they're disconnected from the right-now impulse that a lot of comics blogs suffer through, and partly because the opinions expressed are very different than my own -- both the topics selected and how they're analyzed. Here's the latest group of links on comics series: Winter Men, Children Of The Sea, Hellblazer, Battlefields and BPRD.

* finally, Steve Bell writes a very funny short post about all the young cartoonists waiting for him to die, and how he's using that impulse to take a holiday.
 
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