Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Michael Dooley talks to Camilla d'Errico.

* from the department of largely unfair comparisons one: word count of wikipedia entry for minor X-Men character Doug Ramsey = 4063; word count of wikipedia entry for surpassing underground and alt-comics talent Kim Deitch = 1082.

* from the department of largely unfair comparisons two: number of comics news sources in my core list reporting on yesterday afternoon's news of Joss Whedon directing another Avengers movie = 6; number of sources reporting on surprise news that broke at almost the same time of a new issue of Ethan Rilly's Pope Hats = 0.

* from the department of comparisons someone asked me to make about a month ago but I forgot: weight of a 2010 Eisner Award = 45 ounces; weight of a 2012 Eisner Award = 40.5 ounces.

* Chris Mautner profiles the great Phoebe Gloeckner. Tim O'Shea talks to Jamie S. Rich.

* I'm not sure if everyone can see this, but holy crap look at this early Robert Crumb drawing.

* not comics: Stan Lee makes Aerosmith look young, although god bless the whole bunch of them.

* in addition to the wait-and-see attitude the Society Of Illustrators is apparently taking toward a continuation of the MoCCA Festival, at least until they crunch some numbers, is the fact that a lot of people have been so discouraged by the show in recent years that they've quit, including several this year that told me they had just attended their last. In other words, I hope those smart, rational-sounding people put a necessary effort to resuscitate that show onto those balance sheets.

* Louie Falcetti did a much better job of finding off-beat and out-of-the-way comics at San Diego than I did, that's for sure.

* Stefan Zajic uses a Doonesbury comic strip to move into a discussion of his impressions of the stock market, how they were formed and how they changed. There are so many concepts and ideas that comics readers first encounter in comics form that influences how they see that issue later on. Hell, there's a whole generation of Peanuts readers that watched Citizen Kane differently for the first time for Schulz's work.

* the writer Kelly Sue DeConnick is collaborating with a young person and, if I understand this post correctly, any other young person that would like to participate

* Paul Lopes would like you to take comics seriously. All of them. There's probably a pretty good discussion to be had if the best way for comics to find their ideal audiences is through advocacy on behalf of the entire medium, like in this article, or by advocating to people that there are comics that share similar qualities to works in other art forms they already like. I imagine it's all useful.

* in case I forget to mention this in next week's "Bundled" column, Julia Wertz is serializing a story from her forthcoming book at her web site right now, it looks like one page a day.

* finally, here's another lengthy, considered think-piece on Kickstarter and the cultural ideas surrounding it, this one from Matt Kuhns at Modern Alchemy.
 
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