Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the retailer and industry critic Brian Hibbs has a nice article up at CBR analyzing the problems with Diamond and suggests, quite sanely, that the problem isn't as much Diamond as a corporate entity but Diamond as a agent that must live up to the promises it made and allowances it provides gigantic brokers and sometimes bad partners in business Marvell and DC.

* in the latest installment of what I think is a recurring feature, Chris Mautner recommends how people might start reading Jack Kirby. It's funny in that he completely blows by Thor, which was probably the third-best Marvel comic during its remarkable mid-'60s heyday -- a testament to the depth of Kirby's career. I think Mautner gives good advice that when working with already-established comics fans that it might be easiest to work from the primetime Fantastic Four stuff and then spin outwards in various directions from there. I've had luck with non-superhero fans just giving them a stack of 2001 to start. There's no right answer, of course.

* the writer and retailer Chris Butcher has sharp words for one of those people who wants to be a publisher but don't seem to have any desire to learn the basic business mechanisms involved.

* Dan Nadel takes a hammer to a recent review of Crumb's Genesis by writer David Hajdu.

* it's interesting how little service has been paid to the Gold Key Painted Cover, surely one of the iconic visuals of 20th Century comic book publishing. I think you could put those colors in abstract and they'd be recognizable as a Gold Key cover.

* finally, a happy seventh blogiversary to Johnny Bacardi.
 
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