Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Former CMX Director of Manga Asako Suzuki has joined Tokyopop in the position of Manga Line Editor. DC's CMX imprint was closed mid-summer, and its parent division has since closed.

* this ought to be good: Ng Suat Tong on some original Love & Rockets art.

* long interviews with Lynda Barry are such fun that I don't even care to look if I linked to this one last week already. Equally fun to read are longish interviews with writer Neil Gaiman when he seems in an expansive mood.

* speaking of interviews, there aren't a ton of them out there with Roy Thomas, so this two-parter sticks out.

* if you're looking for one quirky comics-related must-read this morning that's not an interview with some personality-strong veteran creator, you could do much worse than checking out the adorable photo-fan project related to Guy Delisle's Pyongyang book.

* love for Mary Perkins.

* not comics: one discovery made in the last five years is that I have a seemingly insatiable appetite for black and white photos of newsstands like this one.

* the Schultz/Schulz one still irritates me a tiny bit, but I've let most of the others of this type go.

* not comics: this is almost hypnotically appealing/terrifying.

* silly Batman one; silly Batman two.

* Johanna Draper Carlson has advice on how to use Kickstarter, the group-funding mechanism/web site.

* not exactly comics: here's a well-traveled link of advice to PR people on how to work with media people covering whatever it is you do. I'm a terrible, moody, person that makes arbitrary decisions about coverage based on the order of cartoons I read in this week's New Yorker or how many times I step on a crack in the sidewalk walking the dog, so none of these sensible suggestions really apply to working with me. But I'd bet they'd help with most folks.

* the weird thing is, Wal-Mart makes you fill out almost the exact same job application.

* Professor Frank Santoro dissects the comics pages of Chester Brown.

* not comics: I don't really follow the Hollywood end of things, but this article by Warren Ellis made me laugh because I imagine you would very much not like material derived from stuff you created to flop.

* finally, backseat driving Best American Comics.
 
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