Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this article about how Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro doesn't shy away from ridiculing Nelson Mandela seems a bit like a puff piece in terms of building a certain Zapiro brand, but I almost always find articles about South African politics and Zapiro interesting.

* am I reading this correctly? Moebius has announced a sequel to Arzach for 2009? That seems like a fairly major announcement, even if the results fail to get over with the intended audience.

* the prominent blogger Mike Lynch has uncovered six and a half minutes of This Is Al Capp.

* there needs to be a lot more industry analysis where the conclusion is "Shove it up your ass." Not just comics: all industries.

* should more be made of the massive English-language market for graphic novels potentially available in India? Not in a "I'm going to design a bunch of concepts to make big hits" way, but more in a "I'd like to sell my fine, existing books to another audience" way? Hasn't Jeff Smith hit with enough iterations of his work that we should all be following him around a bit and at least looking at everything he does?

* this color guide for DC Comics drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez also offers up the classic 1970s-1980s DC superhero "look."

* this is like finding out there's a restaurant that serves nothing but pigs in blankets.

* if you're a museum in a town with a prominent comics festival and have plans to work with that festival, you should probably inform the festival.

* I don't know if I'm reading this correctly, but it seems to be suggesting that Posy Simmonds is working on a detective story, maybe even a Sherlock Holmes story? The other way to read it seems to me as suggesting her work is like that kind of work, and I'm not seeing it. If this were a day other than Friday, I'd probably delete this whole entry. But today I am proud to bring you a bunch of statements strung together that are not news.

* finally, the longtime mini-comics reviewer Shawn Hoke has been reviewing over at Size Matters again, and weighs in on several unique comics and comics-related handmade works such as the one discussed here.
 
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