Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* you don't see a whole lot of interviews with comics retailers, but here's a long one with the team behind Page 45.

* not comics: it's Banned Books Week. Protest accordingly.

* the one-man comics resource Steven Thompson has more information on Agar-Agar, the psychedelic-looking strip that ran in the UK magazine Dracula.

* although I'm uncertain if Chicago can support two big, mainstream-oriented comic book conventions (one by Reed; one by Wizard), I certainly think that my former place of residence can host one such convention and then a smaller, creator-focused convention. Here's a report from this year's Windy City Comicon.

* how has torrent activity changed during the recession?

* if you get caught reading this in the back of class, do you get thrown out of school twice?

* not comics: I can't remember with whom I had a bet that Michael Chiklis never displayed two seconds of genuine, actorly enthusiasm in those suck-ass Fantastic Four movies, but it looks like I owe you five bucks.

* Glen Weldon writes at length on Wednesday Comics.

* here's a long exhibition report tracing the growth of sexual material in French comics. At least I think that's what's going on.

* the cartoonist Steve Weissman says goodbye to NICK, the imminently defunct magazine to which he joined many of his alternative comics peers as a contributor.

* finally, I haven't read Brigid Alverson's report on the various comics-related phone apps out there, but I'm looking forward to it.
 
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