Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer and editor Gil Roth is publishing a run of his Comics Journal articles and reviews from the late 1990s, starting with this piece on a Ben Katchor lecture/slideshow.

* the as-of-late prolific writer about comics Frank Santoro writes an appreciation of Tom Kaczynski.

* not comics: that's a pretty cool obscurity.

* the French comics journalist Didier Pasamonik pays Fantagraphics a compliment by suggesting that Dupuis' new Gil Jourdan reprints combine a certain kind of presentation with high-quality contextual material in a manner that resemble the beautiful editions of Fantagraphics. Or it could be something about a goat -- I did poorly in French. But I think it's the first one, and that's not a bad thing to be known for in shorthand.

* not comics: the great Gerald Scarfe on taking long cruises. I can sympathize with the progression in logic on display: "That's for old people/Hey, I'm an old person."

* well, I had absolutely no idea there was a new five-page American Flagg! comic in Hero Comics.

* the outspoken retailer Brian Hibbs talks preorders, returnability and discounts.

* not comics: it seems pretty clear to me that the strong first weekend box-office performance of District 9 may intensify the plans of major studios to employ Comic-Con International as a launching point for film publicity. And now I see the fine folks at ICv2.com thought the same thing.

* finally, please go here and read Hervé St-Louis' response to my post on Friday about his article on the Siegel and Shuster families' legal tussle with DC Comics and Time Warner.
 
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