Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* aiee!

* I don't know Jason Netter and I like both Jimmy Palmiotti and Larry Young, but this interview with Netter about his new, aggressively-scheduled line of graphic novels makes it sound pretty awful from where I sit. Those books are going to have to be super, super good in order to find a place in the currently over-saturated DM and book market, or to drive and then sustain a new market in places like Wal-Mart, but the articles about it keep leading with these broad plans instead of speaking to, you know, content. Does anyone not involved with such a venture really sense that there's this hidden reservoir of awesome graphic novels out there just waiting for a publishing opportunity? Does anyone not involved with such a venture think it likely the books won't look like those in the half of the Image pile that stay in the Quebecor box the longest? I'd love to be proven wrong.

* Michael Cavna profiles Steve Breen, making news for his BP oil cartoon efforts.

* the radio show Snap Judgment talks to a number of creators about the superheroes they created as children. You can do audio or video (or both) with that one. (thx, Jon Adams)

* Brian Heater writes a mournful piece on the closed comic store Rocketship.

* the series on female literary figures Peter Bagge talked about in San Diego is off to a rousing start. Unless this is a second one, in which case it continues its momentum or something.

* finally, one of the more amusing feuds in comics continues, as Didier Pasamonik and the news clearinghouse ActuaBD.com take a ton of shots at L'Association and JC Menu through coverage of the publishing house's anniversary. Pasamonik uses such elliptical language that it's hard for me to follow him, but the snark comes through. I tend to side with Menu and L'Asso in this particular set of skirmishes, by which I mean every single time, but it's somehow satisfying to know these kinds of rhetorical battles happen in other comics industries.
 
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