Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* you can access Steve Jobs tributes through Gary Tyrrell, Michael Cavna or Daryl Cagle.

* this site doesn't really have a vehicle to link to Nick Abadzis' sketches with as much frequency as it used to, but that doesn't mean I enjoy them any less.

* Michel Fiffe talks to Jason Latour. Chris Arrant talks to Frank Miller. Zack Smith talks to Brian Selznick.

* here's a nice-looking Evan Dorkin piece of pencil artwork cover for one of the one-shots from The Guild. And here's some lovely Brandon Graham Habibi fan art.

* happy sixth anniversary to Alan Gardner over at Daily Cartoonist. Gardner's site focuses mostly on comic strip news and he's somehow been able to maintain a highly civil comments section, which if I know my Bible means he gets to go to heaven.

* Melinda Beasi talks about the CBLDF's current Canadian customs case.

* Marvel is moving towards a strategy of free digital copies with $3.99 books. So much for any thought that general industry digital pricing strategies would fall into place any time soon.

* missed it: Ben Towle discusses the follow-up project to the collective sketch and drawing effort Animal Alphabet: AlphaBeasts.

* Kiel Phegley notes that Marvel has rid themselves of COO Jim Sokolowski, who came back to Marvel in 2008 after a run at DC as their director of publishing operations. Phegley says that Marvel got rid of Sokolowski because of basic economic realities tied into the current recession. This sounds a bit fishy to me, at least in the "I bet what Marvel thinks the figures should be like are probably far divorced from what you and I think the figures should be like" sense. In other words, I'm not sure what the numbers are like for Marvel right now, and I'm a little bit uncomfortable granting a hugely successful corporation with multiple hit movies, a strong licensing program and at least 7 months firmly in the number one position in their publishing niche some pressing need to make cuts without seeing such figures first. Heidi MacDonald has a nice piece here suggesting that Marvel has gutted its circulation department, that there's widespread parsimony at the company right now, and that if Marvel were to shutter or outsource its entire publishing line at some point in the future this is where we'd look in terms of the beginning of the end.

* not comics: Alan David Doane reviews that Batman: Year One cartoon movie.

* Jim Rugg on Incredible Hulk #368. Don MacPherson on Hark! A Vagrant. Rob Clough on four CCS anthologies.

* finally, Brigid Alverson writes about a push against someone posting scans of the new Kodansha Sailor Moon books. About halfway through she gets off an extremely funny line at some poor young, entitled dope's expense. I can't even imagine trying to suss out the various positions held by people who do that kind of thing, so Alverson's a braver soul than I am.
 
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