Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this Geoff Boucher profile of Berke Breathed has maybe the fanciest author's photo I've ever seen. It's like the Liberace's bathroom of author's photos; it's quite magnificent. It's my understanding that Mr. Boucher's work on comics and related areas is now award-winning, although I can't find the e-mail that told me this. But congratulations.

* this piece about Harvey Pekar may set a new standard in event coverage, or at least force the rest of us to break out our flip cameras and camcorders on a more regular basis.

* there's apparently a critical round-table series going on about I believe current French comics at The Hooded Utilitarian. Nice name, too.

* we are living in the age of Nancy. Well, an age of Nancy. Oh, you get what I mean.

* there's some more stuff out there on the FTC's decision to hold bloggers accountable for the review copies they receive in a consumer/endorsement fashion; Johanna Draper Carlson seems to be on the issue most closely of the regular comics-commenting folk. Ron Hogan has been writing about it, too. I don't really get how this becomes a scorecard story, but I suppose that would make my position when it was a volunteer deal the losing side. I find paid-for endorsements grotesque and pathetic, and have sympathy for the issues involved there and thus the new ruling. I just wish I could move forward with greater certainty I'd be given a fair shake in terms of how I approach my job if something I did were called in question, but hey, life is full of uncertainties. I'll adjust. Somehow I think this may end with me not taking any submitted small press material anymore, but I'm not even sure why I think that.

* obscure Golden Age industry figure reference of the day.

* I don't exactly know what's going on here, but the drawings from I assume Stuart Immonen are very nice.

* not comics: I had to drive over to Tucson yesterday, and, as usual, boy is my middle finger tired (short story: Chicago drivers without the Chicago driving skill-set). I did enjoy my visit to Fantasy Comics, however, and the owner or operator seemed very nice. I enjoyed watching him help a customer who hadn't been in a while find the appropriate tie-in comics for a certain character and story, something that doesn't happen when you buy comics on-line.

* go, listen: Ian Rankin and Neil Gaiman discuss writing; comics are included.

* here is what might be an encouraging story for some about a young artist going through the formal portfolio review process getting work at DC Comics.

* finally, Alan Gardner is doing a pledge drive to help fund his efforts at Daily Cartoonist. We did a pledge drive once here at CR that was right in the middle of our free, no-advertising period. It helped us pay some bills before we started bringing in advertisers and it allowed us to gauge just how many people might participate that way in the long-term.
 
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