Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Daryl Cagle rightfully blasts a Lt. General for appropriating a piece of his art for work purposes and then changing it to suit his needs. I'm not sure I see it automatically as an indictment of the entire administration or even as a thoughtcrime (in that I imagine most people watching it were likely to see it as an altered cartoon more than as Cagle's endorsement, if they thought about it all), but it's still not right. If nothing else, someone should cut him a check.

* Alec Longstreth talks about character, background and color schemes in the best process-oriented post I've read today. Okay, it was the only one of its type I've read today, but I still liked it.

* I enjoyed speaking to Dick Giordano very much over the years, enjoyed his art work, and I never heard anyone speak poorly of him during his long and distinguished career. Still, I'm a little baffled that he would have a humanitarian award named after him, and nothing in the promotional materials I've seen gives me a sense as to why that's a match.

* the writer Kristy Valenti takes in ladies' night at the fine Seattle neighborhood comics store Comics Dungeon. Sounds like a good idea to me.

* finally, a bit of potential good news of the not comics variety: newspaper industry bible Editor & Publisher asks if the bloodbath experienced by free weeklies over the last few years has become more of a blood spongebath. The dire news facing media publications of all kinds has been reported in an almost intoxicating swirl of portent, madness and doom that it's been easy to miss that it may just be a matter of a lot of these publications finding a level that works, and that part of the problem this time around is that these businesses are run with a sometimes-constricting expectation of a certain kind of profit.
 
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