Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* via Gary Tyrrell comes word of this state of webcomics report from Colleen Doran, detailing her efforts to take her work on-line and profit from it. If you only have time for one post today, I bet that's the one.

* since I'm going all Conundrum with the images in today's "Bundled" column, let me put this cool-looking cover to the next Ditkomania right here. Unfortunately, it bumps this cool-looking Mythomania poster by Derek Kirk Kim, so you'll have to go look at that one more directly.

* go, look: Chris Schweizer draws Dracula and Frankenstein.

* Oliver East is fired up to go to correspondence school under the tutelage of Dr. Frank Santoro.

* I always enjoy these translation posts from Kim Thompson over at FLOG!.

* Paul Gravett talks to Chris Murray. Cyriaque Lamar talks to Joshua Hale Fialkov. Josh Kopin talks to Jason Latour. Oliver Sava talks to Scott Snyder.

* there's a good piece here from Tim O'Neil that 1) compares the New 52 initiative by DC Comics with the post-Crisis soft reboot from 25 years ago and pulls a lot of similarities out of both I'm kind of embarrassed I missed, and 2) talks about the problems with building a comics line around Superman when Superman has to settle into his Silver Age persona at some point or another, and what's wrong with DC's portrayal of Superman generally. You know one thing I think is tough with Superman? I think the character may be past the point of being able to support multiple books, and that he fits more poorly than most into the soap opera structure that tends to come with that kind of spread.

* Darryl Ayo is angry about the semantics surrounding alternative/independent comics. He suggests this is a post that would have been more relevant several years ago, and I agree with him. There is likely some trail of essays and/or internet argumentation that got him to the point of wanting to write that post, but I'm not privy to where that trail may be.

* the great John Porcellino has launched a photo-stuffed tour diary for his Fall travels, and of course the stuff outdoors is the best material in the post.

* according to this post at Bleeding Cool, they've located the check used to buy the Superman rights from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, which in comics-historical terms is kind of like locating the apple core somewhere deep in the Garden of Eden. Also, Jerry Siegel's hair.

* Todd Klein on Kirby Genesis #2-3. Ben Morse on five comics worth reading. Greg Burgas on Northlanders #21-28. Sean Gaffney on No Longer Human Vol. 1. Greg McElhatton on Star Trek/Legion Of Super-Heroes #1. Ed Sizemore on Love Hina: A Mirror To The Past. Kate Dacey on Gate 7 Vol. 1. David P. Welsh on comics from Kazuo Umezo.

* finally, at Scott McCloud's request, Todd Klein has put the "Go, Freelance" poster image up on his site in larger, more legible fashion.
 
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