Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Washington Post asked for a substitute strip last Friday from the distributor of Darrin Bell's Candorville, which looks like it was originally reported as their making a physical change on the first strip. Unless I'm completely misremembering, the Post has a recent, poor reputation for running certain strips.

* the cartoonist Wiley Miller will take a five-week break from his Non Sequitur offering; if nothing else, it's a sign of just how well Wiley Miller's work does for him to get to do this. (strip used for illustration from 1999; clients will be offered 2004 strips to run during the hiatus)

* we live in a mighty strange world, and I for one am glad.

* I'm all for reviews of horror films that start out with a reference to Polly and Her Pals.

* the cartoonist, columnist and syndicate editor Ted Rall will cure the ails facing modern journalism in three steps. I don't agree with Ted, actually, because I think alternatives would develop whether or not the newspaper played ball and that the advertising revenue would migrate at least in part to the alternatives no matter how newspapers were positioned. Still, it's good to read someone challenging conventional wisdom, and I think a lot more is necessary for the newspaper to find its landing point without too much damage caused by the severity of the fall.

(Though this is way not comics, I also think that newspapers are paying big-time right now from a bloat that resulted when productivity did not increase along with technological changes. At one paper I visited about three years ago having worked there two decades before that, their writers were producing the same amount of inches we were in the '80s despite not having to lay out their pages by hand and being able to file remotely more effectively and having a better processing program that didn't require hand-coding.)

* these are Danny Fingeroth's Top 10 graphic novels:

1. Maus
2. Persepolis
3. The Quitter
4. A Contract with God
5. It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken
6. Stop Forgetting to Remember
7. Kings in Disguise
8. Brooklyn Dreams
9. Alice in Sunderland
10. Why I Hate Saturn

* I think I totally missed this, but I'm not equipped to tell if it's a big deal that I whiffed on it or not.

* not comics: you know, I thought this guy was kidding when he said he was driving a Weinermobile.

* finally, this may be the finest cause I've ever been invited to join.
 
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