Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* it's refreshing to hear about a cartoonist resigning instead of being fired, and the reason being a change in owners as opposed to a massive drop in circulation and ad revenues. One has to go to Nepal for such an article, but still.
* not comics: I suppose this is a big story based on the fact that it hints at possibly denying people some future movie-watching pleasures and it may unleash a blogosphere's worth of self-appointed legal experts and alarmed headline writers. It's not something about which I can generate a lot of passion until it has an impact on graphic novel sales, which is a long way and two or three maneuvers that may never happen off.
* not comics: it's also hard for me to get worked up about prospective movie deals as news, but I'd certainly go see a decent movie based on the Brubaker/Phillips comic book Sleeper. There might be something to the fact that the article mentions the rights situation as complicated; that could mean a lot of things, though.
* I greatly enjoyed this broad survey article about the value of editorial cartoonists to the history of the newspaper in Australia. Even the opening lines are funny.
* there's a really long and for-mainstream-audience-as-well interview with Jeff Smith up at the PBS NewsHour site.
* finally, Franklin Harris provides Reason with a short history of EC Comics; I'm not skilled enough with the history of this period to be able to double-check it as history just by looking at it, though. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
* the essential dickishness of Sub-Mariner survives across the years and two very different cartooning styles in
