Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I had no idea until I stumbled across it that there was a place to see a new Aislin cartoon every day. Well, most days.

* while we're on the subject of anniversaries that maybe only matter to me -- and we were, I swear -- it occurred to me the other day that 2010 is the 15th anniversary of Roger Corman's Cosmic Comics. At least I think it is: someone will correct me if I'm wrong. If you're ever near a quarter bin with that company's Death Race 2020 in it, you should snap it up. Not only do you get what are basically the lost episodes of Marshal Law, Editor Robert Boyd had top alt-comix talent of the day doing one-pagers of famous celebrity car crashes. If you stop and think about it, RCCC was years ahead of its time as a studio-related funnybook company with a mandate to tweak existing properties in order to see if there's more life in them -- you could announce this line today as an imprint of IDW or Dark Horse and no one would blink an eye.

* speaking of Robert Boyd, here's a nice write-up from his blog on Seth's installation work.

* I'm enjoying these witches.

* not comics: no idea why this William Grimes obituary of Barbara Holland is still in my bookmarks, but re-reading it just now reminds me that it's a pretty good one: concise and charming, as well as a pretty good advertisement for Holland's work. Maybe it's because the description of hers reprinted in the piece of the after-work social hour is such a big part of the comics community ethos? Probably not. It's more likely I was trying to bookmark something else.

* wait a minute... Fred Basset?

* not comics: I actually like the Superman one of these quite a bit.

* the Montreal Gazette profiles that city's vibrant cartooning and comics-making community. This article's a bit different than most in that it attempt to paint a picture that connects the alt-/arts- community with those creators that are working for the North American mainstream publishers.

* a million miles away from comics: I'm sort of tempted.

* power ring: yes, someone proposed to his girlfriend at New York Comic Con.

* two-part 1980s coloring techniques extravaganza at the The Comic Company.

* finally, here's a fine review of Al Columbia's devastating Pim & Francie, a book that only grows in memory as the months fly by.
 
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