Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Sean T. Collins explores why the lack of a strong alt-/arts- presence at the New York Comic Con kept his butt at home. People in comics get mad when someone makes an outright declaration of values in terms of the comics like Collins has here. I think it's fair to judge a show by their ability to attract all of the kinds of comics and comics makers they set out to attract, and NYCC itself has acknowledged they could be a better show by the presence of that arena of comics.

* that is one striking Alex Nino panel at the bottom of this page.

* well, yeah.

* I wanted to post this if only for the novelty of a Filipino art post coming from someone other than the great Gerry Alanguilan.

* it's funny because it's topical. And because it's funny.

* Lea Hernandez draws Vincent Price. One of the great used bookstore gets is the Vincent Price cookbook, if you can ever track one down.

* David Brothers discusses sex and the superhero via a sequence in Flex Mentallo.

* I like those shoes.

* go, buy: Derek Kirk Kim is selling some attractive art.

* I'm going to look into this a bit further if I get the chance, but I always figure everybody sells everything, including e-mail lists.

* so maybe digital distribution will save the comic book, in a sense.

* not comics: Chris Butcher recommends an article on how to be a good PR person from the vantage point of a busy journalist.

* St. Louis is lousy with good cartoonists -- nearly all of them qualifying as young cartoonists -- and Matt Kindt is a fine one, for sure.

* not comics: hearing about St. Louis reminds me that I don't know exactly what former one-time (briefly) Fantagraphics art director -- he also worked for that Chicago comics company whose name I can never remember -- Evan Sult is up to these days.

* Mat Brinkman beer.

* finally, Heidi MacDonald explores via massive linkage the issue of price points in mainstream serial comics right now. I don't agree with the analysis generally or in some of the specifics, but it's fun to noodle along and see where you agree and/or disagree. That headline is somewhat irksome -- I don't think anyone on the planet thinks that dropping the price point is going to save comics and as I explained one of the tough things about selling the price drop is that at best you're solving a problem that could crop up if the price point continued -- but I think it's an overall positive to see people react to an issue by bringing in complicating factors such as perceived value rather than just rejecting/accepting what's in front of them.
 
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