Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* is it totally naive and/or clueless of me to figure that Scott Pilgrim was going to be made available on as many platforms as possible in anticipation of the movie? I've just never been able to see it as a bad thing to meet people at their point of interest.

* longtime convention organizer Dustin Harbin elaborates on his criticism of MoCCA's table prices. He has a point in the sense that he's describing his reaction as an artist and according to principles he believes should apply to shows. In another sense, those things work according to pretty stringent market realities -- there's a way of thinking that you can't charge too much for a table that sells, as the table not selling would be the only thing that defines it as costing too much. It's an interesting set of issues. What gets in the way is that comics people tend to do things according to momentum and tradition and self-wounding desire as much as making clear choices based on financial prudence.

* I hear from a source I swear is not his company's blog that Gary Groth did very well at Graphic, which is a good sign for that festival as Gary had maybe the least "star power" of anyone involved.

* not comics: the writer-about-comics Brigid Alverson gives publishers some practical web site advice. I guess the old saw of if they were interested in practical advice their sites probably wouldn't operate that way applies, but the article provides a lot to chew on. You know what freaks me out? Newspaper web sites where you can't find where the newspaper is based. That's like half of them.

* not comics: this sounds like a good night in front of the TV screen, but maybe not for the reason being advertised.

* Deb Aoki publishes the transcript from the on-line piracy panel at Comic-Con International, one of a handful of industry panels at the show this year not tied into someone's product offering (and this one sort of comes close in a sense): intro, one, two. I haven't looked at the transcript but I was in the audience and it seemed like a pretty good 101-type panel, and I liked how the panelists viciously crushed various scanlation apologists that spoke.

* this is cute; this is gross.

* finally, aren't we just all a little past Reading Comics In Public? I like pictures of Anita Pallenberg and everything, but it's no longer 1998. I saw a lady my Mom's age reading a comic book at the gelato store a couple of weeks ago, and it didn't seem odd to me at all. (via The Beat). If you are participating, let me suggest the comic I most like to read when I'm riding the bus.
 
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