Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I'm not sure I have half a clue as to what's going on here, but it made me laugh. Dibs on the band name "Piss Hergé." Unless that's not what it is, in which case I want dibs on whatever it's called.

* I don't think I'd seen the cover to the next League of Extraordinary Gentlemen effort yet. No surprise that it's fairly striking.

* Jim Kingman takes a long look at one of the enduring, recurring sequences in comic strips: Linus' annual pilgrimage to the pumpkin patch.

* Stan Lee taking bare-bones prom-style photos with Dragon*Con attendees is as good as it sounds.

* I promise you I'm still adding entries to the now-archived NYCC collective memory because I won't sleep well until I get it caught up. One reason is that articles like Chris Butcher's thorough and step-back dissection of the show still need to be read by as many people as possible. I don't always agree with what Chris writes, but this one sounds the most like it would have been my reaction had I been in attendance. One reason that Chris doesn't mention that makes me think it's fair to have expected a more book publisher focused industry show is that when it started Reed was heavily identified with comics people as the folks behind BEA -- the remarkable thing since 2006 is that the SDCC model is still ascendant and the BEA model is seen as quaint if not an outright waste of time for a lot of people. Also, I'd suggest that a show it may resemble more than SDCC is the Wizard Chicago show before that one began to experience hiccups, in its mainstream comics focus and general party atmosphere. (Chris kind of suggests this but not as strongly as I would.)

* this how-to-build-a-cover post from the little-discussed Dark Horse blog is a lot of fun -- that material is always attractive, and those books seem to employ nothing but first-rate modern comics craftspeople.

* pssst, David... they kind of always were.

* finally, doesn't Best Sketchbook In Brooklyn sound like one of those obscure Simon & Garfunkel songs you still like a lot even though you once heard Paul Simon castigate it in an interview?
 
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