Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Alan Gardner caught that the Renton police department now believes that it was an officer that did the animation exposing department foibles, which makes their decision to suspend pursuit of a criminal charge completely hollow as they're taking care of this via an in-house investigation.

* it's been a long time since I saw all the L'Association Persepolis book covers, and I hadn't seen stills from the forthcoming live-action film of Poulet Aux Prunes before now. Paul Gravett has both in this profile.

* everything you've heard about the clutter in Fantagraphics' office is true.

* and then there was that time that Bill Gaines appeared on To Tell The Truth.

* not comics: this is just odd.

* I like that we're seeing a bit more evidence here and there that Fantastic Four is a first-tier assignment. It should be.

* check out this completely awesome-looking membership card the Dallas con gave out in 1973. I would stand in line for quite some time to get something similar at one of today's big shows. I'm pretty certain that if my friends and I discovered a time machine, I'd annoy all of them by making making all our trips to early 1970s comics conventions.

* Austin English posts an intriguing list of favorite ten comics.

* tiny comics really need to make a comeback.

* a sign of a great strip is that its author can be totally convincing describing plot points that on the surface read like complete nonsense. Cul-De-Sac is a great strip.

* is there any good reason that this has two covers? I guess it's a last issue, but that still seems weird to me. I have no idea why this kept being a title once Grant Morrison left, although I'm sure some of the comics themselves were pretty good. I guess I won't be able to complain for a while about series being extended given the line-wide re-launch. At least not for a few months, anyway.

* not comics: Frank Santoro writes great travel posts.

* the writer and reviewer Rob Clough suggests the upcoming, planned-to-be-fancy Solipsistic Pop #4 as a worth project to support via the mechanics of crowd funding.

* a study shows that Dr. Suess makes people happy.

* the story profiled here is perhaps best known for the ultra-daffy image of tiny supermen flying out of Superman's horns, but I think I would buy any comic that featured Devil-Superman and his "weak and evil" nature. Does anyone have a sense of who buys the old 1950s Superman reprints in various forms from DC? I'd like to think it's people completely grooving on their endlessly entertaining stories, but the people I know like that buy old comics with this stuff. So I'm guessing it's mostly serious collectors, in both senses of "serious."

* both this and this made me smile.

* finally, three pieces of art caught my attention this morning: Larry Marder's tribute to the Fantastic Four; Michael DeForge's snappy illustration for The Beguiling (I can recognize all but one of the characters, which is kind of maddening); Johnny Ryan drawing a really dirty picture of a smurf controlling a robot that's having sex with a gremlin, which is doubly awesome because it's a commission.
 
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