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August 5, 2008
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* online bookselling giant Amazon.com
has purchased my favorite comic shop
, the Internet service AbeBooks.com.
*
Alley Oop
marks its 75th anniversary this week. A storyline in the current version
celebrates that milestone
.
*
are people allowed to challenge what I write?
Because I'm not sure I approve.
* not comics: Paul Di Filippo write in to note that
the first web cartoon based on David Rees' work is now up.
I didn't even know something like this was in the works. Speaking of Di Filippo,
he reviewed
Strange and Stranger
for the Barnes and Noble site.
* the
New York Times
has a gossipy, quote-laden summary of
L'Affaire Sarkozy/Sine
.
* I agree with the sentiment of Sean T. Collins' mini-essay
on the fourth estate's apparent attitude towards last month's Comic-Con International
, and with most of his specific statements as well.
*
this is very cute.
* finally, J. Caleb Mozzocco
talks at length
about Paul Pope's process designing the Batman he would use in his
Batman Year 100
, as describe in that work's latest trade edition.
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