Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there's always something extremely distasteful about marching out strips into some sort of contest in order to keep their positions in the newspaper. It's not difficult to see why papers do it, but I think we were all better off when editors made decisions on what a newspaper would run based on their professional decision-making prowess rather than acquiesce so constantly and fully to an imperfect system of "approval" from the readers. My father was fond of pointing out that if he had listened to the readers, they would have stopped running Calvin and Hobbes a month in.

* you know, I always forget that Tom The Dancing Bug is out there, and my life is poorer for that.

* TCJ.com is re-running a fascinating interview with William Gaines that was published in the magazine 9700 years ago. They're splitting it up into component parts, and so you may have to poke around a bit for subsequent installments (I'm posting this on Tuesday), but here's the first chunk.

* not comics: this might be good if they get James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal to play the leads. Oh, you've wondered.

* not comics: Mark Evanier describes a golden era for air travel where you could hop on and off airplanes much more easily and with a greater selection of travel times than you can now. Heck, I'd settle for the relative ease and cheapness of the system we had 1998-2000 before the airlines began to vigorously grind down on their regional flights. I once flew from Seattle to Washington, D.C. for a Small Press Expo for $116 round trip.

* on Cyril Pedrosa and his use of white space. You know what Cyril Pedrosa-related space I'm interested in? The space on my bookshelf where more Cyril Pedrosa English-language books might go. Someone translate more of his books, please.

* not comics: our condolences to longtime friend of this site Buzz Dixon on the loss of his father.

* Sean Collins reviews Perla La Loca. I'm enjoying this series a great deal.

* not comics: Zack Soto is right: this may be the greatest comics-related t-shirt ever. (Facebook only)

* here's a solid interview with Eric Reynolds, associate publisher at Fantagraphics, on the achievement that is 20 issues of the anthology MOME. I was hoping for a second that Eric would go ahead and just slaughter two or three cartoonists that somehow failed him, but I have to admit, I couldn't think of anyone who's done really bad work for that publication, either.

* finally, I hope you're looking for one more good comics-related chat because here's a fine interview with the always-compelling Renee French.
 
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