Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* calling all Clowes tattoos.

* alt-culture distributor Wow Cool is running a test on their new on-line store.

* I'm going to guess this is the last TCAF report. Although you never know.

* Eric Buckler interviews Lorenzo Mattotti; Robin McConnell chats with Igort; Broken Frontier talks to Blank Slate Books Publisher Kenny Penman (1, 2).

* Rich Johnston's site Bleeding Cool posted a complete list of the art Brent Anderson had stolen from his car in San Diego.

* Erica Friedman on the Canadian customs case.

* so yesterday retailer and TCAF organizer Chris Butcher instigated a massive twitter explosion of suggestions for conventions, starting with the premise that the idea of the convention being planned for would be that the cartoonists and exhibitors make as much money as possible. It's a pretty chaotic conversation, and there are a lot of retweets to sort through. There's a link to the raw feed in the linked-to post, but I used this.

* Deb Aoki returns to the JManga panel at Comic-Con International to talk about the potential game-changer.

* now the drops and pick-ups at newspapers are just getting weird.

* go, bookmark: longtime comics pro and member of the commentary class Tony Isabella has launched a blog.

* this is very nice, but sometimes I think certain projects get underway because they'll generate feature articles.

* several heavy-hitter French-language cartoonists of the early 1970s populate this video. (via someone I forgot; sorry)

* the writer Robert Kirkman has signed a deal to have the books in his Skybound imprint distributed in Asia.

* a lot of writers write things they later on have no memory of writing, but in Dana Jennings' case there was a very good reason.

* a few reviews: John Hilgart on the Starstruck Deluxe Edition; Todd Klein on Green Lantern #66 and Green Lantern Corps #60; Geoff Grogan on The Moon Prince (not officially a review, I don't think, but a recommendation); Sean T. Collins on 2009's Tales Designed To Thrizzle #5; Grant Goggans on Big Nate: From The Top. Johanna Draper Carlson on Lightning Girl Loves Rocket Boy.

* take a course from Miriam Libicki.

* the idea behind this comics-related Kickstarter project dealing in conceptual, limited-audience art sounds intriguing to me, and I'm not even high.

* I agree with the sentiment expressed in this blog post about Marvel playing high shenanigans on DC and whether or not it's some crime against comics, although since it's one of the Motley Fool guys, and they love Marvel with the white hot passion of a thousand suns, I'll probably take a moment to reconsider my position.

* not comics: Jillian Tamaki's fabric doodles.

* Jason does Clowes.

* finally, Shaky Kane's next project is profiled by USA Today. You heard me.
 
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