Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* as part of their roll-out of books featuring Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack Vertical Inc. will be releasing hardcovers that will have material the softcovers won't. This kind of thing isn't uncommon in core American comic book publishing, but you don't usually see it in comics efforts from prose publishers.
* the cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson crossed my mind the other day, and I wondered what he was up to. Well, one thing seems to be this poetry project. I had forgotten all about that series.
* this LA Times profile of the resurgent art scene in Kashmir includes a brief discussion of the work of cartoonist Malik Sajad, including a link to his site.
* not comics: the critic Noah Berlatsky digs into Scott Kurtz's recent essay about criticism, pointing out that an example Kurtz uses to suggest that someone shouldn't follow criticism is exactly the kind of criticism he criticizes. I was one "criticism" away from opening a black hole right there.
* finally, the great Eddie Campbell returns to blogging after a long business trip. He talks about that trip and a CCI convention panel where he elaborated on some of his more recent thoughts about the state of the comics industries.
* the cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson crossed my mind the other day, and I wondered what he was up to. Well, one thing seems to be 
