Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* in a rare good-news item -- or close enough to it -- for the newspaper comics page, the Newark Star-Ledger was apparently hammered with complaints when it dropped six comics from its comics page. The size of the hammer is 1200 complaints. Two strips will come back. There aren't a dozen papers that take as much time and care with their comics page as the Star-Ledger, so this is doubly interesting to watch.

* I guess it's nice to have graphic novels of serious import like Asterios Polyp included with prose novels in lighthearted literary round-ups, although it'd be even nicer if the comics history part of it was right. Does anyone know if the "worked all his life for Marvel and DC" goodbye-to-Rubber Blanket angle could have come from PR or another writer's article that's out there? I'm not looking to bust heads, I'm just interested.

* once again, Ruben Bolling kills me.

* this may the best post ever from someone tangentially involved in a terrible movie that made like three dollars as the box office.

* not comics: I notice they've recently made Spaced available through Hulu.com. Or maybe I just didn't notice before, I'm not sure. Anyway, Spaced was a comics- and geek-culture cognizant show that introduced a lot of folks to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. I remember liking it just fine, and thinking it was cute and endearing.

* the Comic-Con crowd is very well-behaved, reports Don MacPherson.

* I greatly enjoyed this Eddie Campbell piece on a classmate of his that also drew comics, Mike Docherty.

* it's hard for me to believe that this page of superhero comics about everyone thinking Green Lantern is awesome because he had a three-way isn't a parody page.

* another Comics Comics winner: on Internet comics scans.

* this is a lot like my original 1970s Spider-Man art. I mean, I guess it's technically true.

* finally, comics consumer advocate Johanna Draper Carlson notes that Marvel has returned full-bore to the practice of making variant covers, goosing sales for comics by targeting collectors that might buy two copies of something to have a complete collection or some other goal I don't understand. This is an long-term bad thing for the comics market, although I suppose someone out there might argue that anything Marvel can do to improve the bottom line right now shouldn't be dismissed. Mostly, though, it's a horrible way to orient your company.
 
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