Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Daryl Cagle remembers 9/11.

* the writer Brian Wood talks about what appears to be the last days of his recent, half-decade, fruitful relationship with DC Comics.

* Mike Dawson talks to Lisa Hanawalt.

* a couple of recent interviews I missed at Comics Waiting Room: Craig Thompson; Rob Guillory. Here's an audio interview featuring the super-talented Laura Park.

* I guess there was a lot more 1960s/1970s retro-feel Marvel art out there to be uncovered.

* this post over at Comics Alliance may be more than you ever thought you would read about comic book lettering, but Moebius is involved. He makes a number of good point, including that readers can train themselves to read just about any style of lettering, so a blanket claim of illegibility rarely has a lot of real weight.

* Martin Wisse digs into a recent top comics list from the perspective that few women artists are represented near the list's top. He suggests various ways around this in the future.

* Jon Carroll remembers Pogo.

* not comics: this is a strange article in that the Cincinnati Enquirer wants to trumpet a forthcoming format change even though the real news is that they're moving production to Columbus. Still, the thought of newspapers changing formats seems to me to have drastic implications for syndicated comics strips.

* not comics: that's a bunch of swell Dan Zettwoch-related merchandise.

* Johanna Draper Carlson takes a thorough look at the new JManga portal.

* the newly-christened blogger Tony Isabella provides a basic checklist as to things that need to be in a contract between creative people and publishers. Meanwhile, the cartoonist and artist Colleen Doran walks her readers through some print-on-demand disasters.

* David Welsh picks his Fumi Yoshinaga top five.

* having people thinking they bought a copy of million-dollar comic book Action Comics #1 when they buy the forthcoming, new Grant Morrison-written version, doesn't seem to me like it would be all that big of a problem. On the other hand, it's comics, so there's a possibility.

* Rob Clough reviews I Will Bite You. Craig Fischer reviews The Feathertale Review #7. Jon Gorga pummels Red Spike.

* the writer Graeme McMillan speculates on why Marvel may be scaling back the price point on its latest X-Men relaunch. He also wonders out loud why female creators only rarely pitch at Image.

* finally, I'm not sure I understood all that much of this except that the writer is joining the Kirby boycott. Early in the morning, that's more than enough for me.
 
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