Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there is an incredible number of single properties with multiple comics titles right now. For some reason, this strikes me as nuts.

* I didn't know until just now that Garry Trudeau provided the cover for this month's Baby Boomer-focused issue of The Atlantic. Makes sense, though.

* you know, I agree with what Brian Bendis says about comics industry journalism here. There should be more long-form journalism by now, and that's as much my fault as anyone. The only thing I can say is that I think it's coming, and I'm not sure I thought that 18-24 months ago. I don't think it's a lack of wanting to do it -- well, I think that's a part of it for some folks -- but that it's more of an institutional development thing. The 'zine press that on-line industry press replaced didn't develop any kind of long-form journalism for years. It takes time to be able to devote resources that way in a consistent fashion. You can leapfrog this stage with dogged effort, but to have a publication settle into that role takes a bit longer. I do think we're on track again.

* when longtime Seattle retailer Perry Plush says "This isn't a library," his customers listen.

* Michael Dooley waxes rhapsodic on editorial cartoons, past and present.

* every so often I catch Marvel or DC making something that's obviously just for 12-year-old me, and I smile.

* not comics: this will probably make you laugh if you've ever written a blog for any length of time.

* I forget who sent me this, but this advice from Erika Moen on living in Portland cracked me up. Takeaway? There are no jobs in Portland.

* the great R. Fiore explains to me what he meant by his analysis of DC Comics To West Coast rumors. I disagree with much of what he says. I think DC has enough gravity to have transferred everything it needed to Los Angeles. I think that infrastructure issues aren't as important these days -- there are massive amounts of comics processed for publication in places like Kansas City, Portland and Orlando. I think LA has as much potential talent for a variety of things DC does as New York might, and likely more talent for the key, desired practice of developing IP that can work across media. Any gains that Marvel would make in having access to leftover locals in NYC would have been offset by DC having unfettered access to all the LA talent, as much as that matters (not very). And so on. Mostly, though, I wanted to point out that it wasn't just a rumor that formulated without basis or the way that rumors formulate: DC considered such a move, and the rumor seems to have had a basis in that reality, not some sort of formulation model (it didn't change; it was sudden and pervasive). Obviously, he disagrees. I was happy to change my characterization of his aim in writing the original blog entry, though.

* David Brothers writes on the importance of video game law to comics.

* finally, the writer Warren Ellis talks about publishing on-line. Ellis has a significant project -- Freakangels -- available that way. I used to love Freakangels because when it started Ellis would send out an e-mail reminder every week when it came out, which was sort of like getting yelled at to take out the recycling. It was the webcomic for people too lazy to keep up with webcomics.
 
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