Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* totally missed that Adam Tracey will be Archie's publicity director. That's an interesting job.

* David Smay profiles Joe Kubert.

* not comics: here's an article about the design of the Vintage Contemporaries books, aka "the books that college students bought in the late '80s and early '90s when they got it in their head to buy contemporary authors out of a sense of generational identification." You remember them, if you were around then.

* not comics: David Choe designs a car.

* David Brothers on the public persona of Grant Morrison.

* the cover that doesn't exist.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco makes the point that in a world where characters are owned by corporations and marched out in a variety of depictions, there is no "real" model to which the odder portrayals run counter. I think I agree with what he's saying, although I'm not sure it's totally fair to the argument to which he's reacting.

* here's a preview of that Wrinkle In Time graphic novel.

* Anthony Rosen on All Star Chapter One. Grant Goggans on Judge Dredd: The Day The Law Died. Rob Clough on Project: Romantic. Greg McElhatton on Benny And Penny In Lights Out, Stumptown Vol. 2 #1, Drama and Maya Makes A Mess. Brian Hibbs on various DC Comics #0 titles. Isaac Butler on V For Vendetta. Christopher Allen on Invisibles Vol. 1 #5 and #6. Sean Gaffney on One Piece Vol. 64 and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 7.

* not comics: I wonder if Jacob Phillips shares his father's not-aging powers and looks four years old.

* aw, Gary Groth's employees love him.

* finally, Sean Kleefeld takes a look at various incarnations of the Jack Kirby Fantastic Four #82 cover.
 
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