Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* researchers now believe that comic books are just as useful as prose reading in spurring reading by young people. I didn't know this was ever at question except on Cliché Island. (thanks, Paul D)

* the critic and historian Jeet Heer argues for the larger influence of Chris Ware.

* the Forbidden Planet International blog is publishing various non-winners from the recent Cape/Observer/Comica contest. There's some very nice work in there if you want to dig in. By the way, a couple of you asked after something you'd heard about the Observer keeping rights to the winning stories in that contest. I asked Paul Gravett, and he says this is not true and the that rights are retained by the submitting artists.

* I'm not sure if this poster is funny, terrifying, or hilariously terrifying.

* this Cul-De-Sac gag not by Richard Thompson made me chuckle.

* I'm very excited that we'll soon get more Imiri Sakabashira, as I'm a big fan.

* here's an update on that recent auction feature comics found in I think a basement of a house about to be sold.

* the writer Kurt Busiek unpacks a significant amount of affection for Toar.

* the cartoonist and lots of other things as well David Heatley has updated his Jackson Heights map for 2009-2010.

* the trailer for Marvel's next event comic is up here. I have yet to go look at it. I guess it's sort of interesting that they do trailers for comics like these now -- I don't know that it's effective, even a little bit, but it's interesting -- and this caught me eye because apparently this thing could be the last event series in Marvel's recent mega-cycle of event series.

* finally, Mike Lynch has pulled up a video from the Chicago Humanities festival featuring Lynda Barry and Matt Groening. I'm not sure if it's been around yet or not, but I sure can't remember seeing it.
 
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