Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* according to my e-mail inbox, which I tend to believe on the majority of non-financial, non-Platinum and non-penile matters, Marc Mason will be doing PR for NBM now. Good. I like Marc Mason.

* the writer Gail Simone provides an update on efforts to assist John Ostrander in getting surgery for a degenerative eye problem, and may god bless her.

* the critic Jeet Heer looks at the dark side of Carl Barks, and tries to convince you that you always knew it was there.

* the Jessica Abel, Jason Little and Matthew Thurber Conversational Comics event has audio up here.

* let's hope this continues: Chris Allen takes initial steps to fold his old Breakdowns effort into his current blog.

* prominent blogger Don MacPherson speculates the crap out of what might be in a forthcoming Joe Kubert volume coming from DC. Could it be Wednesday Comics related? What else is there left to publish from Kubert's long DC career?

* writer and cartoonist Jeff Parker takes a moment to remember the late artist Mike Wieringo two years after his passing.

* Brian Heater profiles Top Shelf for AppScout.

* not comics: I thought this a nifty piece of bloggery.

* not comics: the Spider-Man musical may be dead. I already don't miss it. No confirmation that the planned villain was The Boondoggle. New York theater fans may have to console themselves with James Bond Vs. Wolverine, whom I believe are playing the most ruggedly handsome, least body-fat sporting Chicago police officers ever.

* the always-valuable Mike Lynch has a lengthy post up about the cartooning business from his valuable perspective. They're taken from questions sent in, I think.

* finally, I guess there's some newsworthiness in Playboy doing an excerpt from Inglorious Basterds in comics form, although to call the final result a "graphic novel" seems odd to me and the whole thing smacks of "help us promote our stuff -- now!" so I'm glad I have this option. The interesting part to me isn't Tarantino's involvement or what looks to be a snappy old-school magazine approach from artist RM Guera and colorist Giulia Brusco, but that according to PR this is the third time the magazine has done this. They're not trend-hopping with the comics: it's a revival of something they did in the early '70s for Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) (1972) and Young Frankenstein (1974), so in essence it's probably the least-mentioned of all Playboy's many contributions to comics. As having cartoons of any kind in Playboy seems to be in some danger these days, being reminded of all the different ways that publication has used comics in the past becomes sort of poignant. The print magazine with the excerpt is out this Friday, and probably features some young celebrity woman they don't have posing naked inside or a once-famous lady in her 40s that they do.
 
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