Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* word of a back-owed Wowio creator receiving just payment.

* I always have bad luck with site like this one in terms of things popping up and without my asking them start playing things, but here's a link to an interview with Evan Dorkin by publisher SLG's radio show effort. Dorkin is almost always entertaining.

* speaking of SLG, Dan Vado objects in the comments section of a Sean Collins post about his attitude towards and efforts on behalf of Street Angel.

* Google announces its on-line book strategy. This is one of those things where the possibilities drive the interest rather than the realities, but definitely something to which everyone must pay some attention.

* again, I'm glad that cartoonists have the opportunity to do this and that they do this.

* the editor Calista Brill talks about the need to teach comics.

* finally, Ben Towle writes about the Stitches National Book Award nomination. The e-mails I got with this link led me to believe he was going to suggest it was nominated in a youth category because it was a graphic novel, when it was the publisher pushed it there, but I didn't see that argument at all. What I did see was an interesting piece of the opening salvo variety about the lack of general fiction successes and an assertion that this means that comics hasn't arrived yet. I think it's an interesting observation, and I would like to see more successful comics fiction falling somewhere between Bone and Dan Brown, sure, but I'm not sure I'm ready to make any sweeping pronouncements. I think the book market is kind of a shambling leviathan on its best days (and gross besides), so there are bound to be peculiarities if not outright dysfunction when it comes to making comics work through that market. The book market's lack of imagination and tendency to front-run on genres is one reason I think it's very important comics maintain its own market and try to make that market much more diverse.
 
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