Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonist Liz Baillie wonders if you want to join her mini-comic of the month club.

* missed it: congratulations to Geoffrey Patterson and Geoffrey's Comics on the shop celebrating its 30th year in existence.

* the critic Johanna Draper Carlson caught a reference in Entertainment Weekly that matter-of-factly includes writer Bill Finger as a co-creator.

* not comics: a big chunk of recent alt-culture history up for auction, including a Dame Darcy painting.

* the writer and I think reviewer Al Kratina walks through a number of webcomics initiatives, although I'm always a bit worried when the stepping stone aspect to something is emphasized over the opportunity to do something aspect.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco wonders after the new Kevin Smith Batman comic's reliance on overt references to sexual activity and identity and suggests that it may be a switch in editors that's the difference.

* a bunch of you have sent in links to this short essay about Ahmed Fadaam and how excited he is to be doing comics. I honestly don't find it surprising that anyone would be happy to do comics right now: they combine an object of childhood affection with something that has a lot of right-now appeal. It's a great gig for many, many people.

* this is the first news story or feature I've seen in mainstream media on the Comics.com policy change.

* finally, the must-read of the day features-wise almost has to be the great R. Fiore's review of David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague. It's what I'm calling up onscreen the second I'm done with this site for today.
 
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