Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* not comics: great post from Jeffrey Brown about his encounters with the late director and film writer John Hughes. I assume it's 100 percent true, but maybe it's not. On reflection, I don't care.

* someone please correct me if I have this wrong, but I think this says that Joe Sacco will speak during the Comica Festival in support of his forthcoming Footnotes In Gaza.

* I love it when Evan Dorkin talks comics of any kind, and here he is talking about the ugliness and overall stupidity of the early X-Men villain The Vanisher, complete with drawing.

* the money raised for writer John Ostrander in order that he may afford surgery to help keep his eyesight has passed the $31,000 mark. Please consider giving.

* it's like it's raining Dan Clowes interviews. I have no idea if that's new, but people are e-mailing it to me like it is.

* not comics: defender of traditional marriages and facilitator of late night standing around and drinking hoping to get a job in comics Doug Manchester is divorcing his wife after 43 years. (via)

* not comics: I remember trying to do this when I was a kid.

* this probably means I'm an elitist jerk, but I read Mike Sterling all the time and I know what comic stores are like and I know how popular the plotline has been and it still seems weird to me to read that everyone that shops at Sterling's store is into the latest Green Lantern saga. Not weird in that I think about it and I want to criticize that subset of readers, because to each his own, but weird in that it just doesn't seem to me how the world is ordered. But it is ordered that way, right?

* not comics: our condolences to Mike Manley.

* you know, as much as I've always been confident in newspapers' ability to survive the loss of their display advertising monopoly, it seems to me they should be ten years past that many publications needing what looks to be fundamental help with their on-line operations. Great idea for a business, though.

* let the healing begin.

* finally, Ruben Bolling continues to kill me.
 
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