Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* according to the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com, Radical Comics has signed a distribution deal with Random House for its squarebound comics.

* not comics: there's some fun reading about illustration to be found through the links here.

* this article on how weird it is to make artists do sketches made me laugh, and of course the commissioned Roger Langridge cartoon is gorgeous.

* the writer and comics historian Mark Evanier says goodbye to Duoshade illustration board. I just know I'm going to be 80 years old using my metal claw hands to search the Mojonet or whatever it's called then and I'll read some article about the progeny of some present-day comics genius rediscovering all these old ways of doing things that were abandoned and flipping out about how great they are.

* the more things change, the more someone tends to rip off the version just past.

* Stan Lee comments on the sale of Marvel to a big media company... in 1986.

* David Welsh unearths some of his favorite items in the D&Q sale.

* I think it's good that cartoonists do this.

* finally, congratulations to writer Robert Venditti and artist Brett Weldele on what surely must be the odd but very fun and thrilling circumstance of seeing one's comic book changed into a massive motion picture with an iconic action star at its center. According to the awesome power of cable TV recently returned to my home, Surrogates opens today. I don't really have the site to do anything with all the preview material they keep sending me, and that stuff is certainly not comics, but I'm happy for the pair of them and hope they're having a great time with the experience. You can read the comic that started them on that journey here.
 
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