Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I have little idea what this article specifically means, but I guess a comic book as a library's milestone acquisition is one of those "times sure have changed" moments.

* the cartoonist Eddie Campbell gives thumbs up to Robert Stanley Martin's review of Big Numbers #3.

* the prominent blogger Sean Kleefeld fails to endorse weight as a measure of health, or Direct Market estimates as a measure of sales, but he does endorse that bitchin' comic book advertisement with Arnold Schwarzenegger holding up Kathie Lee Gifford. I do, too.

* these are adorable.

* I'd never heard of a show of that size having a variant cover done in its honor, but maybe that kind of thing happens all the time.

* the writer, critic and cultural historian Jeet Heer excerpts his essay in The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek: Comics and Art 1900-1915 in support of The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek: Comics and Art 1900-1915.

* not comics: I'd never seen Rich Tommaso with a beard before. I mean the beard he grew on his face; not James Sturm, you smartasses.

* for someone who would certainly be uncomfortable doing so, Robert Crumb gives great press conference.

* I'm not sure it deserves a letter as I don't think suspect that it's an institutional thing, but that's some lousy, smug writing in the New York Times as pointed out by Erica Friedman.

* not comics: New York Anime Festival saw increased attendance this year; that show will be part of New York Comic-Con starting in 2010.

* here's a video and some written material in support of the story about a recent Keith Knight cartoon that has the people upset you'd expect to say they're upset.

* finally, I don't know what Johanna's talking about -- I prefer very expensive limited editions, and if they're accidentally stuffed with cash, I believe in sharing in that sudden burst of good fortune.
 
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