Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com notes in promoting its latest publication that periodicals rather than graphic novels have helped stave off the recessionary trends facing comics. I may be thinking in way too unsophisticated a fashion, but I have to think that graphic novels have suffered a bit because of the spike that Watchmen sales provided until the second half of 2009, and I wonder after the effect of raising prices on the success enjoyed by stores with serial comics.

* if you're a French comics site profiling Paul Pope, this is definitely what you should call your article.

* not comics: two of you sent in this Matt Blind post analyzing the latest in the pissing contest over what will be the eventual outcome for the troubled but not seemingly horribly troubled except maybe on paper Barnes and Noble. It's only tangentially related to comics, but a certain string of events could take that tangential nature and make it into a spear that stabs comics and other publishing businesses right in the heart, so it bears watching.

* a success story featuring a webcomic cartoonist... this time, not in North America but in Korea. I don't know as much as I should about webcomics in North America; what I know about webcomics in Europe or Asia could be worn as a necklace by Little Cat Z. The cartoonist being profiled does evince a familiar disdain for middle-aged people, so that's comforting.

* I'd worked ahead far enough on birthdays that I'd forgotten that one day I'd have to start doing them again -- that day came August 1. So I missed some birthdays, like Danny Hellman's. Sorry to put a little bummer into anyone's big day that got used to seeing the announcement at CR.

* finally, movie with mostly generic major story device has multiple antecedents in all art forms shocker.
 
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