Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* former Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart lost a re-election bid in this week's Republican primary despite the national attention his crude campaign comic book received.

* here's something I missed: an almost-$80K grant to Syracuse University to assist in the upkeep of their vital cartoon holdings, one of the long-standing repositories of comics out there.

* there's always a surprising feature or two if you only take a close look at the wires once a week: I didn't think I'd find a piece on Kin Hubbard and Abe Martin this morning, that's for sure.

* go, read: a virtual symposium on Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics.

* people seem so excited about, or at least interested in, Ballantine doing a Garfield Minus Garfield that they keep e-mailing me the links, so I suppose it can't wait until the next publishing news round-up. People seem surprised that Davis would allow this, but it seems like a pretty obvious choice to me and perfectly within Davis' mostly easy-going approach to his strip's success. What it isn't is a crass, financial-based decision as some have suggested, which given the size of Davis' operation even these days and what this could add to the bottom line if it were the biggest hit imaginable is still almost too laughable an idea to be engaged.

* the writer Jim Washburn compares Bill Mauldin's cartoons to media darling of the moment Generation Kill.

* my nightmares have been exactly like this since last weekend.

* finally, this interview with the Hernandez Brothers may be the sunniest talk with three cartoonists ever. It kills me you can buy the entire first volume of Love and Rockets for $85. Basically you can get the greatest comic series of all time for about half the total cost of a DC Comics weekly limited series. That's just awesome.
 
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