Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Shaenon Garrity's comics-related manifesto focusing on emerging audiences is a lot of fun even if, like me, you don't agree with a lot of it. I can tell you one thing for sure about people younger than 30: they sure take their sweet time getting off of my lawn.

* not comics: IMDB is hosting the first trailer for the comics-milieu Frost/Pegg comedy Paul.

* always a delight to read an interview with Kevin Huizenga, one of the most thoughtful and articulate cartoonists out there in addition to being one of the art form's best.

* I can't imagine anything more horrible than being caught in a Bill O'Reilly e-mail crush except maybe every other thing in the world that has something to do with Bill O'Reilly.

* Alan David Doane has a few more comics sets left in his rent sale.

* comics has had its share of weird couplings, and Mike Sterling takes a look at one: Bill Sienkiewicz inking Jim Aparo.

* I enjoyed this interview on NPR with Garry Trudeau while running errands yesterday morning. Trudeau has a nice voice, and I'd never heard that stuff about Joanie Caucus and law school before.

* the retailer and industry advocate Brian Hibbs always gets mad when I use the various tags to describe posts at his Savage Critics so instead I'll point out that this piece by Hibbs makes distinct but seemingly reasonable objections to two new, major comics offerings.

* the formidable Ng Suat Tong talks about some recent criticism of The Comics Journal's legacy. I don't understand a word of it, which is probably one of the problems. Sure beat working at QVC, though.

* I mentioned briefly the Marvel covers feature in ESPN's magazine iteration featuring NBA teams crossed with classic covers and/or situations -- seems the Cleveland Cavalier fans don't like the way the way they're portrayed. Or something, I don't know. It's Cleveland. I like going to Cleveland but I don't have a lot of patience for the Cleveland-as-Cleveland thing.

* and some days the end of comics can't come quickly enough.

* the inimitable Chris Sims profiles the wackiest of mainstream comics' "spooky" characters, including the magnificent Dell monster character that weren't really monsters in the way we think of monsters. You used to be able to buy those in every quarter bin across the land -- I think Green Lantern Comics in Seattle had 58 copies of those books.

* finally, Calvin Reid profiles a resurgent, digitally-focused Wowio.
 
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