Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the 2011 SPACE Prize nominees have been announced.

* Jillian Tamaki shows off some of the work recently acquired by the Library of Congress.

* Frank Santoro ropes Ed Piskor into writing a Pittsburgh comics scene report.

* Kevin Melrose notes that DC's Dan DiDio is saying that the various line-wide, reality-bending "Crisis" series have been written out of the new DC continuity, which is the kind of thing that really matters to a lot of people and matters not at all to others. This seems a little bit interesting (and maybe only a little bit) in four ways. One, they can't totally write these events out because they've already established that some of that stuff happened in their new books -- slavish continuity is a sticky, sticky thing. Two, to some extent this speaks against the notion floated during the ramp-up that this material was almost a year in the making and was firmly planned -- a point that's much less important to maintain now that the initial Direct Market success has arrived. Three, writing out past events may make it easier for DC to do a Crisis-type reality-bending storyline for the "first time" a few years down the road. Four, this may betray some of what DC feels about the hardcore older fan as a target audience.

* a retailer writes a newspaper column.

* Craig Fischer on Pluto. Johanna Draper Carlson on Questionable Content Vol. 2 and Archie Archives Vols. 1-2. KC Carlson on a bunch of DC's new #1s. Christopher Allen on a slightly different bunch of new DC books. Greg McElhatton on Justice League Dark #1. Don MacPherson on Batman: The Dark Knight #1. Sean Gaffney on Negima! Magister Negi Magi Vol. 31.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco walks through those Siegel-Shuster statements of writer Grant Morrison several weeks back, and emphasizes how unfortunate they were.

* the legendary John Porcellino will be teaching a one-week, intensive workshop in Spring of 2012.

* a retailer round-up on DC's New 52 initiative.

* please remember the month-long effort to raise money for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to meet its immediate needs. Today they spotlight some of their art auctions.

* not comics: I'm not sure why anyone should be surprised that Marvel seems intent on trying movies with lesser-known concepts after they've worked through movies with better-known concepts. For one thing, in terms of potential movie audiences Iron Man and Thor are basically not very well-known concepts. For another, I would assume they want to keep making films, and at some point you run out of characters comic book people perceive as top tier. For yet another, they had significant success early on with the movies featuring the minor character Blade. I would imagine a more interesting question is how you pay for a film that they can't pretend it's pre-sold in this era of super-inflated production costs and general studio preference for concepts like Bridesmaids. Marvel has been very creative with some of its cost-cutting measures on their movies.

* Michael Cavna talks about his interaction with the cartoonist Molly Norris that led to her being put on a hit list by the recently assassinated radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

* not comics: Philip Nel picks his ten Desert Island picture books.

* someone at ICv2.com talks to Yang Jae-hyun. Michael Rundle talks to Dave Gibbons. Josie Campbell talks to Tony Bedard. Cyriaque Lamar talks to Dan Clowes. Kim Thompson talks to Kim Thompson.

* one used to have to pretend to be moving towards a degree in another subject to spend one's grad school year's deep in the study of comics.

* if not every person's nightmare, every other person's.

* finally, I'm not sure who can see this picture from Facebook and who can't, but Tom Neely's Sparkplug tattoo is pretty nice-looking.
 
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