Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Bill Leak had a hard time believing he'd been in a coma.

* cleaning up my office dept.: of all the weird things I've seen in the last few years, a full-page ad in a major metropolitan newspaper devoted to promoting a newspaper's on-line superhero and comics reporter/blogger has to be among the weirdest. That's Geoff Boucher of the LA Times.

* well, that's an interesting t-shirt choice.

* an election-related story at MTV's Splash blog features Matt Fraction and Warren Ellis basically doing superhero/politics stand-up. Other election stuff that didn't go up yesterday: Michael Cavna, Ralph Steadman, Steve Bell, Jeremy Eaton.

* missed it: a call for specific legislation covering porn that doesn't involve the direct exploitation of a model.

* the blogger Simon Jones looks at how a Texas sex toys case might have an impact on erotic comics publishing.

* finally, Dirk Deppey answers the crap out of my question about why an on-line system for comics can't be made that includes the possibility for existing comics retailers to participate (in other words, I'm not suggesting they be grandfathered in). I'm barely an expert at comics, let alone one in the speculative building of Internet industries (thus my tax bracket), and I grant that the bulk of Dirk's points sound like they make sense and because they're built on existing precedent will be the likely path taken. Still, I think there are differences between comics and music/video -- the immediacy of their secondary identity as collectibles, the significant differences in the aesthetic experience, their perceived lack of market saturation, the size and mainstream status of their ideal markets, the relative possibility for ad support, the more significant role of comics shops as venues of influence, the pliability of comics shops and resulting inability to dictate terms -- that suggest to me there are possibilities that the system best suited to deliver digital comics content could involve unique solutions. They likely won't, of course.
 
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