Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a 36-year-old man had his comic books stolen from his storage facility while he was shipped out with the Navy.

* here's something I hadn't considered: Leigh Walton points out that while it probably wasn't malicious due to the way the book came together, it sure would have been nice if Jiro Kuwata's name appeared in a prominent place on the new, lovely Chip Kidd-assembled book Bat Manga!.

* add SLG to at least Fantagraphics, Picturebox, and Drawn and Quarterly as stores that own retail operations. I'm likely forgetting one.

* a report at the LA Times says that Berke Breathed's "final cartoon in the paper/final panel on-line" ploy worked well enough that upwards of 15 million people tried to access the site on Sunday. Breathed also assured all of us that Opus is in a happy place that is not the afterlife. I feel sort of bad for Breathed in coverage of this event, because I totally take his word that he left the Sunday-only Opus because of wanting to do more kids' books and the creative dissatisfaction of creating in the current political climate and, I think, in the context of so many people doing something like that now. Still, the legacy of the strip because of the hopes for it at its launch has nudged that discussion in a slightly different direction.

* a massive archive of British political cartoons has gone on-line.

* the prominent comics blogger Heidi MacDonald assembles more on cutbacks at the news and comics site ComicMix, including who was laid off and who is merely declining a salary for now.

* no financial crisis letdown for Watchmen, that's for sure.

* finally, various folks are still processing Tuesday's election from a comics-centric point of view. This article at MTV's Splash Page talks to a number of professionals that are happy about President-Elect Obama's win. Valerie D'Orazio and Sean Kleefeld look at more general storytelling factors that may come into play. Also: President-Elect Obama's comic outsold Senator McCain's, the entirety of Rob Tornoe's election day of cartoon blogging, one cartoonist says thanks to the man who influenced him to become what he is today, and this made me laugh while this made me smile.
 
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