Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* an altercation between two teens outside the Lone Star Comics location in Plano ended with one stabbing the other, driving him to the hospital where the stabbed student died, and then the teen that did the stabbing and the driving being charged with murder.

* the writer Marc Sobel continues his walk through the greatest comic book series of all time, Love and Rockets Vol. 1, with a look at issue #36.

* the editorial cartoonist Jim Lange is leaving the newspaper business after 58 years on the job, and while it's my understanding from a mention in another article that this was apparently not his choice one hopes that he'll be pleased by tributes in print like these two.

* as tends to be the case with these sorts of things, this two-part interview with Tokyopop Publisher Associate Publisher Marco Pavia is better at providing a glimpse into the publisher's attitudes and a glimpse at the shape of its overall publishing plans (they'll continue with the smaller books-per-month scaling back through 2009) than it is at nailing down any specific story.

* comics fan Joe Greenwood was a 26-year AIDS survivor.

* when designy isn't got.

* finally, there are a lot of historical articles about comics and cartooning out there, but I enjoyed this one about their role in Turkey more than most. I'm not sure why, but there's something about people claiming a part of a history that stretches back to 1869 that's really satisfying in light of the constant reinvention of the wheel that's come in a number of comics scenes.
 
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