Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this review by Dan Nadel of Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter is the first negative review of the book that anyone I know knows about.

* the prominent blogger and retailer Chris Butcher is apparently going to spend a year or so running gags from Evan Dorkin at his widely-read Comics212.net.

* the comics world is reminded via firm application of press material that Batton Lash celebrates not one but two comics anniversaries this year.

* not comics: Stuart Immonen posts a memorable John Hughes movie snippet. This is the first memorial to Hughes where I haven't found myself instantly familiar with the excerpt employed, which is somehow gratifying to me in that I paid no attention to Hughes' work when he was alive and am fairly freaked out how much I remember of his work now that he's gone. The movie moment gets a little silly, but I like the idea -- there is no better Chicago experience than going to the Art Institute to stare at that painting for a while, except maybe going to one of the paintings nearby and kissing Mia Sara.

* birthday boy plus one day Eddie Campbell reminds us that a big under-one-cover edition of his Bacchus material will follow up the Alec omnibus that's coming out this Fall. The Alec book continues its march through the printing process.

* finally, Brett Warnock walks us all through his San Diego comics pick-ups. I regret not doing one of these myself, because that kind of feature is an easy way to focus on the work being published and under the spotlight at such a show as opposed to endless talk about fan culture or whatever. It would also have helped if I had collected my San Diego comics haul like an adult rather than stuffed into various suitcase pockets like a seven-year-old kid.
 
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