Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there is a very long and involved video profiling Virgin Comics here.

* the writer Marc Sobel continues his look at the greatest comic book series of all time, Love and Rockets Vol. 1, with a profile of issue #33. I think that issue had the first installment of Wig Wam Bam, which was a very influential serial for me in terms of my own desire to write. That cover still kills, too.

* David Welsh speaks with two departed Tokyopop staffers, Keila N. Ramos and Trond Knutsen.

* David Petersen's Mouse Guard has secured for Archaia Studios Press another ForeWord award.

* I found some of the questions kind of odd, but it's not very often that you get to read someone like Lee Salem answering specific queries about the syndication process. If you want to do a newspaper comic strip, and may God help you if you do, I would imagine it's a must-read.

* now I feel bad for not working harder with my two fully functioning hands.

* here's an update on the interrogation room confession of Tomohiro Kato, the young man who flipped out and first drove into a crowd and then started stabbing and attacking people in the Akihabara shopping district -- well-known for catering to pop culture tourism.

* if a better-than-expected launch for the new Hulk movie comes off, and that's beginning to look like it might happen, add the ability to successfully play the expectations game to Marvel's list of meta-marketing skills.

* finally, Alan Gardner notes that Doonesbury returns from its hiatus next week. It would have been fun to see what he would have done with the extended Democratic primary, but Garry Trudeau has earned his vacation time and seems fully cognizant that such a move could cost him papers, and doesn't complain about this, so he can do whatever he wants. As Gardner notes, a lot of papers need to figure out what to do with strips they were running on an interim basis. Trudeau's high-profile, early-'80s hiatus, really the first of its kind, helped launch Bloom County. I don't hear about any one strip that's benefited from the Trudeau slot being temporarily open, but I'd heard from several people that Washington Post Writer's Group was pushing Candorville to positive effect.
 
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