Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jake Parker explores The Known World Of Visual Storytelling.

* The Adventures Of Mr. Phil posts three more late-'80s indie-comics promotional images: Kafka, The Puma Blues and the Adam Hughes-drawn Death Hawk. I'm old enough even the visible folds in the images take me back.

* not comics: Brian Fies recommends the Forty Acres web site.

* Brian Ralph concludes his five-day CCI comics diary with good advice on how to leave the show and a bunch of photos.

* I can't remember how I found this, but apparently Fantagraphics has up some promotional material for its forthcoming first edition in its Carl Barks ducks effort, and almost as a rule that would have to be worth checking out. To be honest, I can't even tell if that's new-news or old-news.

* not comics: Joe Ferrara's 30-year odyssey singing the national anthem at Giants games.

* hard advice from Maison Immonen.

* not comics: what going to high school with Crockett Johnson would have been like.

* cartoonists and comics-makers ask questions of Alan Moore.

* writer Jeff Lemire talks re-launched Animal Man.

* Bully reviews Barack Obama's presidency to date in the comics. In a not-related-at-all post, Michael Cavna at Comic Riffs picks his favorite of the President Birthday editorial cartoons.

* not comics: Terry Gilliam teaches you animation. (via Gil Roth)

* it's always a good thing when Evan Dorkin draws Marvel characters.

* Graeme McMillan suggests that modern mainstream comics writers' tendency towards stylized dialogue sometimes makes the characters sound the same.

* not comics: Editor & Publisher notes that some media stocks experienced more drastic-than-average drops in yesterday's stock tumble. A comics-related item: Daryl Cagle spotlights a few stock market drop cartoons.

* the site Hooded Utilitarian did a Top Comics poll.

* author Brian Selznick is due for a big Fall with a new book and Martin Scorsese-directed film version of his hit hybrid effort The Invention Of Hugo Cabret. Here's Selznick speaking to PW. Here's ICv2.com breaking down his forthcoming season for hobby business devotees.

* finally, Tony Millionaire asks the eternal question (at least where Tony Millionaire is concerned): is this strip better when I drew it drunk or sober?
 
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