Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* The Comix Claptrap is back, and your hosts are speaking to Anne Koyama of Koyama Press.

* on the occasion of the first volume of Fantagraphics' reprinting of the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse hitting the market, Jim Korkis tells the largely forgotten story of Malibu's attempt to publish those same strips some twenty years ago.

* I hope it works out that the original Thor quit to appear in unpublished issues of Thor: The Mighty Avenger, because those adventures were much more pleasant than the ones he's in now.

* not comics: I love not-all-there Patty Duke.

* the chief editor of the Kickstarter sensation Womanthology project shows up in a comments thread at The Beat to talk about the scrutiny the project has received. At TCJ, Dan Nadel suggests he could do four premium anthologies and pay everyone a good page rate for the amount of money that project received on Kickstarter. Womanthology isn't paying any of its contributors. I believe you should pay contributors and certainly you should if there's money to do so, but of course other people disagree and they're certainly allowed to proceed the way they want to -- just as I and others are allowed to voice our dissenting views and make comment on the general practice.

* also, Nadel is right about this Atlantic list. Not only are none of the named books masterpieces (some smart people think The Photographer has that status, granted), some of them are uninspired if not outright awful comics.

* not comics: and then there was that time that Bill Gaines got stuck in the arm of the Statue Of Liberty.

* does anyone else find the phrase "potty mouth" just a tiny bit more disgusting than a similar combination of actual curse words? Maybe for some people Pearls Before Swine is one of those works of popular art where your memory has the characters cussing even though they didn't, like Sanford and Son or Cannon.

* this is like my manga collection, only the exact opposite.

* whenever I'm reading a comic book western, I'm always dying for more superhero continuity.

* go, look: Evan Dorkin draws Sin City and Skeleton Key.

* the SEC alleges that a 26-year-old man whose girlfriend worked in Disney corporate practiced insider trading by buying options based on knowledge of the Marvel-Disney deal.

* excellent.

* finally, a smattering of late-in-the-week reviews: Hayley Campbell digs into Like A Sniper Lining Up His Shot, which gets the "awesome title" award if nothing else; Christopher Allen drills deep on Asterix And The Black Gold; Johnny Bacardi dissects a bunch of books at once.
 
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