Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* congratulations to David Collier on his awards nomination for Chimo.

* if you only have time to read one article today, you could do much worse than this interview with Best American Comics series editors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel. If that doesn't interest you, maybe this TCJ roundtable on Habibi might? I might have linked to that one yesterday, actually, but I'm not even going to look it up -- it's worth mentioning again.

* Drawn And Quarterly Associate Publisher Peggy Burns went to the comics conference in Iowa City and all we got is this admittedly really fun, photo-filled report.

* speaking of D+Q, this looks sort of like the meals that we used to have at Fantagraphics in the 1990s, except no one is crying.

* not comics: Ron Marz writes about Bernie Wrightson's Halloween parties.

* that's a nice monster design, especially for an era you couldn't go way out of bounds with a monster design.

* Ily Goyanes talks to Dan Clowes. Jennifer Vineyard talks to Dan Clowes. Dave Richards talks to Matt Fraction. Bill Kartalopoulos profiles John Porcellino. Simon Kuper profiles Hergé. Michel Fiffe talks to Paul Duncan and Phil Elliott.

* Ryan Cecil Smith on Warmers. Gavin Jasper on various new DC Comics. Sean Gaffney on Psyren Vol. 1. John Kane on some westerns. J. Caleb Mozzocco on comics he bought at the comic book store.

* DC may have won September, but they lost Scott Porter.

* vote early, vote often, vote for Louis Riel.

* Johanna Draper Carlson points out another maddening cancellation by Marvel, this time of an eight-issue mini-series at its fifth issue. I think they might have been way better off doing this series and that Thor one they cancelled as on-line comics leading up to the release of the respective Captain America and Thor movies, but they're really not set up to do much of anything right now other than make serial comic books. Frankly, I'm sort of generally confused by the overlapping Captain America series they've been doing recently -- some characters anchor their own comic, and that's about it.

* Tom Neely posts his comic from the new issue of Pood.

* not comics: Evan Dorkin talks about Halloween and horror movies.

* not comics: Michael Cavna has a nice, short post up of It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! ephemera.

* my apologies for forgetting who sent this to me, but Death Note won a recent manga poll for best of its type in the decade just past. Sounds good to me, I enjoy Death Note in pretty much all its forms. Speaking of manga -- which I do way too infrequently -- behold the Tower Of Clamp. Also, David P. Welsh discusses some of his favorite scary manga titles.

* people keep sending me links to this picture of Muhammad Ali reading a comic book about Muhammad Ali (and some other guy). I don't mind, though -- who wouldn't enjoy that picture?

* finally, Martin Wisse points to a piece by Colin Smith on the problems of having Dark Knight and Watchmen as the pantheon of serious superhero comics works to give to people. I never thought about this before, but those would be problematic works to hand out. Back in the day (1987-1993) when I was in the kind of social setting where people that didn't read comics would ask for or borrow comics they saw lying around, the only superhero comics that people liked or that I gave out were the comics that made up Batman: Year One -- which I imagine would be less impressive now for its feel being borrowed by the Nolan movies -- and Zot!, believe it or not (college-aged kids and the just graduated are ruthlessly nostalgic for their early teen years). If Flaming Carrot counts as a superhero comic, people liked that one, too. The two most popular comics overall were Yummy Fur #24 and The Big Book Of Hell.
 
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