Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Hugos have added a comics category.

* firebrand cartoonist Frank Santoro's sweet tip of the hat to the Joan Reidy and Ron Rege effort Boys -- which is indeed a great one-shot comic book -- reminds us that a D&Q anthology series of Ron Rege's work begins next month with Against Pain.

* the LA Observed blog takes note of Dave Strickler's effort to index every strip that's ever appeared in the LA Times.

* one of the more interesting of this decade's emergent cartoonists, Kazu Kibuishi, talks about getting into the final stages of a graphic novel project and is asking for volunteers.

* I tend not to mention sales here, because, well, it's kind of gross, but this one looks pretty nice. While I'm in new, uncharted territory, what the hell: former ComicMix heavy-lifter and Wizard on-line anchor Rick Marshall has some between-gigs auctions ending today that you might peruse.

* this seems to me a reasonable summary of the big American mainstream comic book comapanies' effort to diddle around with a few on-line initiatives. It doesn't really look impressive when it's all gathered into one place, at least not to me. Anyway, it's nice to have the James Sime stuff in there about how he welcomes comics moving on-line, even monthly serial pamphlets, because it's a refreshing break with conventional wisdom that retailers see a 10 to 30 percent of migration to on-line material as a meteor-slamming-into-planet event.

* it's hard to know what to think of this semi-demented profile of Mark Millar, except maybe that it's less boring than a lot of comics creator profiles.

* the cartoonist Rutu Modan and the Eisners boiled down in Haaretz.

* is it the drugs talking if I suggested one of these companies just do a top-creator, formatted-for-screens webcomic starring some of their best-known characters? DC should do its next weekly this way, or Marvel could do its next off-beat event support comic like that weird Civl War one that was about reporters browbeating Iron Man. It's weird this hasn't been done yet.

* apparently, Sammy Harkham is a genius.

* finally, it's more not comics of the "holy crap, what's going on with newspapers" variety, but it definitely has an impact on one of the major comics industries: Editor & Publisher provides a nice summary article on the cavalcade of strategies under consideration by papers dealing with the changing nature of that industry.
 
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