Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this article on DC and Marvel moving to Asia speaks in such broad generalities it's hard to glean anything useful from it, but the percentages chart at the bottom showing western vs. Japanese comics market share in various Asian markets is worth a look. (thanks, Paul D)

* two fine warning posts from wise comics veterans: Tony Isabella on what a contract should do; Print On Demand horror stories from Colleen Doran.

* you just know John Porcellino would have to have a fascinating 10 favorites list, and he does.

* Johanna Draper Carlson, as finely attuned to a view of comics from the consumer's vantage point as any writer-about-comics out there, takes a look at the launch of the JManga portal. She also dissects the interview with Alvin Lu of Viz that the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com did in two parts, and looks at CBG's move into digital.

* I'd buy that Batman comic.

* Mike Sterling on where to start with Swamp Thing.

* Ryan Cecil Smith talks about a cute, fun baseball manga.

* the author Tom De Haven has contributed a fine essay about modern reprint efforts to TCJ.com. It's one of those articles where the approach makes the piece; I wouldn't be interested in just any article about that subject matter.

* really fine choice of interview subjects by Graphic Novel Reporter: Abrams book designer Neil Egan.

* FLOG! profiles Wendy Chin.

* congratulations to the writer Brian Bendis for re-committing to longtime employer Marvel in a way that he makes sound was pretty satisfying from his vantage point. Good for him.

* Neil Gaiman looks like he's having fun.

* I think DC doing a midnight madness style promotion for the first wave of their relaunch books is a great idea. I'd go to one if my local comic shop had one -- if I had a local comic shop -- and if you went to something like this you'd probably buy one of the relaunch books. Richard Bruton suggests that the trailers DC released in support of the relaunch could use different music.

* the answer is "sure." I mean, it already has a couple of times.

* Stuart Immonen sketches Star Wars. Evan Dorkin has posted more original art for sale. Chris Samnee draws a very youthful and vibrant-looking Dark Phoenix. Benjamin Marra channels Jack Kirby.

* finally, Alison Bechdel is working. Actually, I'm not sure I all the way knew she was doing a memoir about her mother; I felt like I knew when I read the casual mention in that post, but that project makes so much sense I might have been faking that memory.
 
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