Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* longtime industry figure Scott Edelman unearths his fanzine report on the first of Phil Seuling's mini-conventions designed to tide fans over between Seuling Cons.

* the writer Warren Ellis pays tribute to the trials and efforts of Gil Kane. It's always interesting to read mainstream creators comment on other mainstream creators when it's not open, empty-headed praise.

* this doesn't seem to me that interesting a news story, but I can't find a way to say it in pithy fashion: this quarter's book sales are down compared to the same quarter in 2008 when the Watchmen movie trailer drove a boatload of sales. Literally a boatload, as I assume these books were printed overseas. Okay, maybe not. But still a lot, so a decline doesn't seem to me surprising at all. Still, there it is.

* the writer Sean Collins has a nice piece up here on how comics editors manage the use of their characters outside of their purview, as modern crossovers tend to demand.

* creator Matt Maxwell provides a first-person perspective on the recent Long Beach Con.

* the critic Tucker Stone gets into a couple of those weird continuity-driven projects that the mainstream companies do where they seem very insistent that the series in question needs to be done but as a reader you're probably not feeling it as much as they are.

* I'm not sure I understand all of these, but the ones I do are cute.

* finally, I know it sounds goofy and probably outright tight-assed bagging on something involving poor old Archie, but that some news sources have actually carried the obvious PR-stunt of this "What If? marriage thing as if it were a real item of pop culture news boggles the mind. It also goes to show you just how unsophisticated some news sources are, and how much they deserve to be losing the readers they seek to entertain instead of inform. Johanna Draper Carlson analyzes here. Archie's press releases on the matter are basically lies, and I don't think they're clever or fun at all or justified by their success. It just reminds me what a creepy company that is.
 
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