Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer and columnist Steven Grant has a lot to say about the DC restructuring news and what it might mean.

* one of the great, under-appreciated joys in comics right now, particularly for those of us who enjoy the underground comix and their cartoonists, is Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri's magazine Mineshaft. Rob Clough reviews the latest issue.

* everyone's pal David Lasky is going to save the Pacific Northwest and perhaps the world from the killer flu, because that's just the kind of guy he is.

* the blogger Gary Tyrrell says that the person who should get the credit for that popular webcomics-oriented neighborhood on the Comic-Con International floor is Phil Foglio.

* Jean Schulz, philanthropist

* ComiXology acquires another nation-state in its growing on-line services empire.

* I didn't even know even know there was such a thing as federal IT cartooning.

* not comics: the comic business news and analysis site ICv2.com has a couple of pieces up that underlines the flexibility -- or low-end chaos, if you prefer -- that is modern retail: Blockbuster is moving towards more of those kiosks I see families with young children lined up in front of at the grocery store on weekend afternoons; Toys R Us is taking advantage of all that empty retail space out there to set up temporary stores for the holidays.

* this profile of Brian Crane notes that Pickles is in its 20th year of publication and is in over 600 papers. Wow.

* hey, has Marvel ever centered one of these crossover events around Dr. Doom? A good one? I'm not exactly a regular superhero comics reader, but it seems to me the character could potentially use the boost. I mean, it's nice that Harry Osborn's dad got an Iron Man suit and everything, but Doom needs to win nearly every fight not against Reed Richards in steamroller fashion if only to keep people from goofing on his name.

* Slate visits Marvel

* finally, I think I got the subsequent review but not this thinkpiece from Don MacPherson on the 9/11 Benefit Books. You might be able to make an argument that this was one of the first times that comics publishers thought of themselves as modern media companies, with all the expectations thereof.
 
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