Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the very successful editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman wrote a final column under his just-ended, more frequent, more editorial cartoon-heavy publishing schedule thanking his readership. You can see his final cartoon here.

* whoa! Check out shirtless Craig Thompson. Apparently, Craig will be cuffing you to the floor if you don't buy Habibi.

* in my continuing attempts to turn this into a Legion of Super-Heroes blog, strange in that the DC property would only place at about #133 on superhero comics I liked as a kid and fails to chart on things I like right now, I have to confess that I was rather taken with the old-fashioned nature of this feature. CR reader Kyle Garret explains how many Legion series there have been.

* it's hard to imagine any list of great comic shops in LA not including Secret Headquarters, even though the four I've been to on this list are all fine shops. One of the shops on the list always gets a downgrade from me because they priced a bunch of back issues at a certain point, I spent 90 minutes making a big stack, and when I got to the cash register I was told they were priced incorrectly and the prices were raised -- even though they didn't go to that area of the store to check the prices there, just the ones I was holding.

* the writer Sean Kleefeld looks at the effect that satisfying political beliefs of a target audience has on certain strips.

* not comics: having a clothing line launch is the coolest thing anyone I know has done this year, and will likely remain so unless my old college pal wins her election and becomes a judge. Paul Pope also says he's working hard on his First Second and Dargaud projects.

* not comics: Marvel will have their next run of their comics movies they're making themselves distributed by Paramount. Variety notes that this makes up for the holes in the distribution slot left by DreamWorks departure from the studio, which further makes sense given that remaining partner Brad Grey is apparently more inclined to chase blockbusters of the Forrest Gump school rather than the comic book school.

* "gee... uh... thanks... "

* if you're a criminal, trust me: don't sit here.

* maybe I just woke up cranky, but why on earth is an anime festival that apparently had a hard time assembling folks a manga panel greater in PWCW's top story slot rather than the comics-focused Baltimore Comic-Con? Please don't write to yell at me unless you want the letter published -- I'm very busy today. That said, it sounds like a good panel.
 
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