Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Lance Stahlberg confirms to Brigid Alverson Robot 6 that Haven Distro plans to close at the end of the month, although there's the usual idea floated that something might develop to keep the company in business under a different ownership arrangement.

* if you haven't had the chance to read cartoonist Debbie Huey's Facebook post about her cancer, please take the time.

* this piece of Dylan Williams Family benefit auction art from David Lasky is swell. There's some nice new stuff available from Greg Stump and Megan Kelso you can access through here. If I get to live this life over again but with a lot more money, I'll spend a lot of it buying one-page story comics like Kelso's.

* Danica Davidson talks to Lev Grossman.

* I'm not exactly certain why a link to William Ekgren's cover image for Weird Horrors #7 is sitting in my bookmarks folder, but it's never a bad time to go stare at that amazing-looking thing. Here's a post about the artist that includes more examples of his work. Has anyone ever been able to find a death date, or is Mr. Ekgren maybe still with us? Update: He was alive last year. (thx, milo george)

* so apparently the Starfire character is slutty in a sarcastic, wisecracking way instead of a naive, make-you-really-sad-for-her way. Good to know. Speaking of DC continuity trivia -- because that's what we do now -- Cyriaque Lamar takes the occasion of the informal announcement that DC's various "Crisis" events won't be a big part of the new overarching storyline to run around kidney punching dopey universe-altering story moments from the past 20 years.

* a bunch of you have sent along this blog post about depressing comic strip character, which if nothing else makes it seem highly likely that none of the Miami newspapers carry Funky Winkerbean.

* longtime Phoenix comics retailing fixture Mike Malve has found another job.

* the writer Graeme McMillan muses on price points and release strategies for digital comics. It's a topic worth discussing right now as companies begin to formally move entire lines to that arena. I have to imagine this issue has a really good chance of shaking itself out in the next 12 to 15 months, and I'm guessing they resist for the most part the obvious price point. I suspect the ability to discount and thus drive sales may become really important to those companies, even though I know that sounds slightly nutty.

* Alan Davis drawing Batroc the Leaper from a script by Ed Brubaker sounds like a lot of fun.

* Marvel has a teaser out for an announcement they're making at the forthcoming ReedPop New York convention. It doesn't take long for someone to suggest line-wide reboot as the announcement, although most people think it's a story-driven thing about the return of their Phoenix character. Although, come to think of it, any character named Phoenix is pretty much guaranteed to come back.

* the writer Jason Aaron shows off some forthcoming X-Men comic book imagery. If that's an indication of the basic design template for the comics themselves, I think it's attractive.

* Comic Book Legal Defense Fund 101.

* I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but when the story broke about Bank Of America charging its customers a high fee for use of the debit cards issued by the bank, one of my first thoughts was that this was a good story for editorial cartoonists because they could take their wrapping paper cardboard tubes and whack the pale, fleshy thighs of the bank while practically no one disagreed enough to complain. You don't get that with cartoons about the presidential candidates.

* this makes me feel a lot better about my own 20-year quest, just recently ended, to look as much as possible like Herbie Popnecker.

* Rob Clough on the comics of Michael DeForge. Wayne Alan Brenner on Best American Comics 2011. Kevin Pasquino on more of those new DC books.

* missed it: Katherine Dacey is back.

* finally, Aaron Diaz explains why cleavage is bad for crime fighting.
 
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