Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a Delhi high court denies an Archie lawsuit because the publisher does not have an office in India.

* I'm not sure exactly from where 2010's appreciation and re-appraisal of Jim Woodring and his comics came, but I'm happy for it and agree with the general sentiment expressed in this article.

* so is USA Today still a newspaper?

* this interview with Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson has four or five bits of trivia that I either never knew or had forgotten. Also, Dark Horse has 140 employees.

* not comics: someone doing a Will Elder documentary is trying to raise the remaining funds needed through Kickstarter.

* veteran cartoonist Rob Ullman has opened a new store at his web site.

* my friend Gil waxes rhapsodic about the transporting qualities new Jaime Hernandez story in Love and Rockets: New Stories Vol. 3. I think it's the best story he's ever done, and is right up there among my favorite stories of his, too.

* I'm certain there's ageism in comics, but my hunch is that there's a lot less ageism in comics than in other art forms. The phenomenon that Valerie D'Orazio talks about here is less ageism than the results of an industry that burns through talent and at times doesn't pay its rank and file enough money to make for a safe, comfortable life. In some of these case, the industry simply can't pay these people. In other cases, they won't.

* Ryan Sands went to the Big Ax Festival and took the pictures to prove it. Love that Hanakuma picture.

* not comics: here's a picture of Kurt Busiek back in the day, ready to head down to M Street and pick up a slice at Acropolis.

* Happy 100th issue, Strapazin.

* Comics Alliance talks to five prominent Direct Market retailers about the $3.99 serial mainstream comic book price point.

* it's like that Facebook movie with more turned-around baseball caps.

* finally, the writer Warren Ellis thinks out loud about the age of digital comics that is right there over the horizon that's like 100 feet away, and may have accidentally established the initial default format.
 
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