Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* oh, comics.

* one of the great pleasures about constantly looking for comics-related material on-line is that you'll get someone talking about a worthy comic right out of left field, as is the case with this review of Vaughn Bode's The Man.

* not comics: I totally whiffed yesterday on a new Alan Moore story being published on-line, so here is one of the more concise write-ups that places this work in context.

* most successful cartoonist day-job ever?

* this guy loves Hellblazer.

* Derek Kirk Kim still has some beautiful original art for sale.

* people keep sending me links to this Joe Queenan mini-essay on Peanuts, which I'd avoided because I didn't think it all that interesting. A few even sent it telling me it wasn't all that interesting. High-profile venue, though, and it's hard to fault someone for describing why they love something.

* not comics: this sci-fi con masquerade footage is amazing long before the naked ladies show up. There's a guy in there that sells his vampire beating like he's a young Ricky Morton. Mark Evanier's introduction makes the naked ladies part less weird. A little less weird.

* Joost Swarte shelf porn!

* it's always fun to compare one's taste to the taste exhibited by the very superhero-conversant writers at The Cool Kids Table. I only liked about four of the covers reprinted. The other thing that struck me is that there's apparently a Wolverine title called Wolverine: The Best There Is which gives me hope for series with other Wolverine spoken catchphrases and one-liners like Wolverine: Are You A Beer?.

* there are all sorts of explanations for the current direct market sales slump, and this is one that's depressing if it's true and maybe more depressing if it's not.

* you know, when Chris Sims wrote that he went speed dating at NYCC, I thought he meant he participated in one of those writers-meets-artists program. No, he meant actual speed dating at NYCC.

* finally, the last time superheroes were used to promote a professional sport, it was baseball that was the beneficiary and it just reminded everyone that we were in the declining years of the Age of Steroids. The first thing that springs to mind here is that this another high-profile gig for Marvel -- you can argue that even more than the movies it's the licensing end of Marvel that's the biggest different from the bankruptcy days.
 
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