Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* now that's a funny way to give your former employers the finger. Sine Hebdo claims better sales than Charlie Hebdo and rolls out a funeral wreath.

* this discussion of "iconic" superhero comics covers is fun if you're a fan of those books.

* the newspaper industry magazine Editor & Publisher has a small round-up of public announcements concerning what is replacing Opus in various newspapers. As is the case with the last couple of departures from the pages or part of them, the gains look to be spread across a number of features.

* this standard article on the Halifax cartooning scene lets us know what happened to Mark Oakley. I mean, probably everyone else already knew, but I hadn't thought about it.

* I'm not sure exactly what Heidi MacDonald is getting at with this essay on the effects of widespread Internet usage on fan favorites, although I suspect she's on more interesting ground when she discusses how the actor Bruce Campbell has been able to make art for hardcore fans in a way that might have an overall negative effect on his career than she is when she talks more generally about the idea of geekery as rebellion. One thing that I thought was interesting about the late 1990s is that enough people became everyday users of the Internet it buttressed opposition to a widely-held idea that an arts community for comics had to be built on things other than an interest in that specific medium's art and industry. Many would disagree with me on that observation and its implications.

* finally, here's a short profile on one of the underrated public comics things to enjoy: the murals you can find around the city of Brussels.
 
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