Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Gabrielle Bell talks about her future plans, MOME, and why she took down the vast majority of those diary comics.

* it's always a good day when Jim Woodring puts new art up on the hall of fame site Comic Art Collective.

* bunch of DC Comics-related links out there. Kiel Phegley surveys retailers about the new DC comic books. It looks like they've really exceeded expectations in that market. Scott Snyder talks about his DC efforts. Bob Wayne and John Rood talk to the hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com. Dan DiDio talks to CBR, and here's the take-away quote. As I wrote a couple of weeks back, if DC is able to maintain publishing discipline over the long term, that could be a great thing for the industry. Graeme McMillan points out a panel recording where indie publishers talk about DC's moves.

* congratulations to Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick on their Richard Feynman book at First Second hitting #1 in its New York Times sales category, whatever the hell that means.

* good for the CBLDF walking away from SPX with $12,500.

* all cities should be designed by either Darryl Cunningham or Mattias Adolfsson.

* not comics: in certain ways, niche news sites are beginning to outperform bigger ones.

* Tim O'Shea talks to Sterling Hundley. Tim Callahan talks to Johnny Ryan.

* some day I'll have the time to look at one of these Newsarama slide shows, but not today.

* not comics: sales on the newsstand have not been kind to magazines.

* the writer Graeme McMillan asks after the original plans for this summer's Flashpoint event series, and speculates a bit based on an old series of ads on what that series might of looked like had it not been drafted into the John the Baptist role for the Jesus that is DC's New 52. You'd think it'd be easy to tell, because the line re-launch stuff shoved into Flashpoint seems so clumsy it feels like it could have been cut right out of that final series issue.

* Rob Clough on Little Nothings Vol. 4. Don MacPherson on Green Arrow #1. Brian Hibbs on #1 issues for Stormwatch and Static Shock.

* Michael Cavna asks if comic strips should be held to the same fairness standards that newspapers apparently apply to traditionally written article. I'm going to say "no."

* the writer and cartoonist Shaenon Garrity, who recently enjoyed a successful Kickstarter campaign, dishes out some advice on how to best replicate the success she and some others have had.

* finally, the writer Jeff Jensen suggests that the comics industry fully embrace the TV model for scheduling its work. This strikes me as odd as I'm not sure TV really has that kind of structure anymore.
 
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