Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Noah Berlatsky publishes interview work product from a recent article on the effect that the closure of Borders will have on manga.

* I think Kieron Gillen will do a good job on the X-Men books he's writing, but it's odd to think of Wolverine as a protector of children given that one of the more popular ways to present the character over the years has been in partnership with a teenage girl.

* not comics: shelf porn, the real-world crossover.

* sounds like Charles Hatfield had a nice summer vacation.

* wearing a "V For Vendetta mask" serves the man, it doesn't fight the man.

* there are a few interesting posts and comments regarding DC's New 52 out there. Shannon Smith points out that the biggest-selling comic of all time, best known for its variant covers and insane speculation aspects, did have a ton of pages and featured a lot more things happening plot-wise than in the decompressed, standard-sized Justice League #1. Johanna Draper Carlson talks about the goals driving the relaunch here, while industry veteran KC Carlson has a piece on relaunch issues generally here and Justice League #1 specifically here. That pair comes at superhero comics from what I perceive to be a slightly more involved place than I do, so I appreciate that pair of perspectives. Ditto that of longtime fan Brian Hibbs on the closure of the former DC Universe. This post by John Jackson Miller would seem to be the place to start to get a general idea of what's going on in the market in a broad sense that led to these moves by DC. The writer Marv Wolfman ropes in the "Silver Age" changes and updates as another linewide revamp, which puts the mechanism at a once-every-25-years frequency. Of all the high-fives that DC gave itself on their blog on the day the relaunch took place, the one to take a second look at is from Hank Kanalz.

* Sebastian Bach may have lost his home to Hurricane Irene, but he saved his comic books.

* not comics: Drew Friedman draws his dad: the novelist, playwright and former Martin Goodman employee Bruce Jay Friedman.

* I hadn't yet seen this review of Duncan The Wonder Dog.

* not comics: funnybook stores 1, Department of Homeland Security 0.

* "I have never drawn Peanuts for children."

* sometimes a link will stick around my leftovers file long enough I totally forget its context or why I bookmarked it, but this photo gallery called "Drawing Hats At The Philbrook Museum" might be more entertaining with no context and no explanation.

* here's a long piece on the contributions of Lee and Kirby to the comics they made together.

* a great letter received by cartoonist Mark Parisi.

* the writer Tony Bedard has mixed feelings about the revival of two Crossgen titles he wrote. I remember liking the freewheeling nature of Bedard's work at Crossgen.

* finally, Caitlin McGurk talks to fellow librarians about acquiring graphic novels for their collections.
 
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