Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* according to the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com, longtime Borders graphic novels buyer Micha Hershman has joined Dark Horse as their new senior director of marketing.

* the New York Times has a profile up of Joe Kubert, where among other topics he talks about his forthcoming standalone book Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965. More on that book can be found at Robot 6 and The Bleed

* an Italian movie studio has apparently purchased Igort's fine, fancy Coconino Press. I have no idea what that mean as I have little to no knowledge of Italian movie studios, but anything that Igort wants to do, I'm all for him doing.

* not comics: the artist and cartoonist Colleen Doran talks about what late payments cost freelancers. Late payments is also a significant reason why it's sometimes tougher for freelancers to manage money flow as opposed to simply making enough money in a calendar year.

* the writer and reviewer Johanna Draper Carlson is not having any of your double-standards when it comes to file sharing/copying stuff. I think I might actually be willing to different arguments for different media and the industries serving each medium, so don't tell Johanna.

* longtime Marvel editor Tom Brevoort recalls a month ten years ago when his editorial office facilitated a staggering number of comic books.

* Jon Bardyla has the same question I do about the recent wailing over there being no comics for kids. That question: really? It seems to me there's a decent number of comics for kids right now. It's not exactly 1958, but it's not 1998, either. Okay, I just took a second look and I think this retailer gets at the heart of the problem: that there aren't comics exactly like the old comics for kids. Well, there isn't a show like Happy Days on TV right now, either, and yet somehow children survive.

* I totally missed that Lynda Barry provided a pep talk to this year's participants in National Novel Writing Month. (html/pdf)

* there's a great picture of William Steig and a link to some of his work here.

* the inker and writer Charles Yoakum comments on that fascinating Irene Vartanoff interview.

* finally, while I'm sure everyone involved is a nice person and means well, the closeness in style and approach of these two books is definitely alarming, if not outright shameful.
 
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