Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a new Asterix volume is imminent and as is sometimes the case the popular comic series will depict a situation that has a real-world counterpart. I don't find that kind of thing extremely interesting, but it does remind that this Fall a freaking fleet of trucks worth of Asterix books are going to be sold.

* James Kennedy profiles Sam Alden. Some nice person at Kindle talks to Andy Kubert. Alex Dueben talks to Ted Naifeh. Mariella Frostrup -- I think -- talks to Joe Sacco.

* not comics: the Bechdel test, practically applied.

* Mike Sterling looks at the way the first Miracleman-devoted offerings from Marvel are being released to the marketplace. It seems like the classic case of a company -- in this case Marvel -- manufacturing interest around an admittedly sturdy sounding project rather than building on a groundswell of support out there. At least I don't detect one. The thing is, those companies are sometimes really good and generally okay at manufacturing interest, and it frequently works out when the subject of that attention is a high-quality offering from one of those companies: well-crafted, big-names, feels important. Also, Sterling dives into a run of Peanuts jokes for which he doesn't particularly care.

* Nicholas Qualls on Heck. Matt Derman on some more comics from the year of his birth. Sean Gaffney on Attack On Titan Vol. 8 and From The New World Vol. 1.

* not comics: this short video of Jen Vaughn hitting some man with a stick is sort of hypnotic. I'm sure there were a lot of pretty good cartoonist-festooned parties over the last weekend. Speaking of that kind of video effort, here's one in my bookmarks from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

* Sean Kleefeld found a very cute something here: those are two titans of 20th Century comics, for sure. He also goes to his local library.

* I think a series of feature article on favorite books of the year may make Michael Cavna of Comics Riffs over at the Washington Post first out of the gate in terms of doing a best-of kind of offering. Someone mark down the date of the earliest piece so we'll have a bar to leap over next year. So far Cavna has talked to Nate Powell about March and dug into the Junot Diaz/Jaime Hernandez prose/illustration partnership on This Is How You Lose Her.

* finally, you have to love this Tony Millionaire self-portrait as the Sock Monkey.
 
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