Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's a nice article on the French version of the Comics Code. This could be all made up and I wouldn't know.

* the LA Times profiles Firas Alkhateeb, the artist who did the Obama as Joker Photoshop manipulations that led to one of those 16-hour periods of strident, talk-radio style idiocy a couple of weeks ago.

* the designer and author Chip Kidd talks about the DC Comics cover templates and logos he's done for some sort of column at the New York Times. One of the things I thought was a shame about there being so many Crisis on Whatever crossovers and covers over the last year is at least in the three shops I visited, the books became their own separated-out ghetto rather than be allowed to pop out against a backdrop of all the current comic books.

* the publisher has won French language publishing rights to Joe Sacco's forthcoming Footnotes In Gaza, and will put out their edition in January.

* in who gives a crap but it's pretty high up on my google searches news, an article at the Huffington Post notes that both Chicago dailies have conservative cartoonists now. I guess this united could mean Mayor Daley might only serve 80 years instead of 100.

* here's a detailed synopsis of the Jeph Loeb presentation from the Comics and Media thing that ICv2.com had the Wednesday before Comic-Con International last month.

* the Drawn and Quarterly boys went to visit Michel Choquette and saw some of the art discussed in this week's cover feature on The Comics Journal #299.

* not comics: Matt Wiegle draws 1984.

* finally, I missed this list of influential mainstream American comics industry comics writers by Justin Zyduck. His list is:

1. Stan Lee, 2. Alan Moore, 3. Chris Claremont, 4. Neil Gaiman, 5. Jerry Siegel, 6. Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, 7. Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, 8. Harvey Pekar, 9. Warren Ellis, 10. Gardner Fox, 11. Mort Weisinger, 12. Len Wein, 13. Grant Morrison, 14. Brian Michael Bendis, 15. J.M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen, 16. Roy Thomas, 17. Steve Gerber, 18. Denny O'Neil, 19. Frank Miller, 20. Carl Barks, and 21. Geoff Johns.

Off the top of my head, my list would go:

1. Stan Lee, 2. Alan Moore, 3. Chris Claremont, 4. Charles Biro, 5. Jerry Siegel, 6. Bill Finger, 7. Harvey Kurtzman, 8. Don McGregor, 9. Warren Ellis, 10. Gardner Fox, 11. Steve Englehart, 12. Len Wein, 13. Grant Morrison, 14. Will Eisner, 15. Mark Waid, 16. Roy Thomas, 17. Steve Gerber, 18. Denny O'Neil, 19. Frank Miller, 20. Archie Goodwin and 21. Jim Shooter.

Man, that's kind of hard. It's not like these are all the makers of my favorite comics, but for instance with Mark Waid his focus on memorable storytelling moments over broader definitions of narrative in superhero comics was a huge thing for those kinds of comics -- Grant Morrison responded to it in a big way, for one. With someone like Steve Gerber, he wasn't a direct influence -- I wish he were; I'd love more comics like that -- as much as he re-set certain boundaries for certain kinds of comics and allowed people more room to express themselves in a certain way. And so on.
 
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