Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a manga company offers an on-line rentals program.

* there were more than a few entertaining articles around the Comics Internet this morning. Tim Broderick took his daughters and their friend to Chicago Comics. I think the reason I like it is because if I had jumped in a time machine in 1978 and ended up at Chicago Comics I would have wet myself and cried for three hours it would have been so amazing. Today's kids: not so much. Abhay Khosla provides maybe the best Comic-Con panel write-up ever, including an imaginary Joe Quesada hanging and resulting coprophagia, in the guise of a review of Secret Invasion #5. Evan Dorkin is always fun to read when he writes about his own work, and these three posts about rejected gags are no exception. This interview at The Factual Opinion is the best person that doesn't read a comic book encountering a comic book thing they've done yet. There's even a good Aquaman joke in there.

* although I suppose it's possible I'm missing something and I'll get an angry letter from somebody telling me how rotten the following is, it seems to me that this write-up of suggestions for Comic-Con International is a model of the form: a genial and sympathetic tone, specific and achievable solutions, fueled by personally informed opinions from someone on the ground. It doesn't mean I agree with the recommendations, but they seem ideally presented.

* this video editorial from Robert Kirkman makes me think that there should come a day when we turn on our computers and this kind of thing flickers on screen whether we want it to or not.

* best freelancer excuse ever.

* finally, I've had three people write in to tell me that they like this on-line comics reader better than any other they've seen, which means someone must have posted about it out there somewhere. Anyway, it seems like kind of a nice one to me, but I'm not familiar with such readers. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
 
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