Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* unless I'm punting on some salient detail, and I probably am, it looks like a German-language version of Chester Brown's I Never Liked You will be published under its original title of Fuck. I mention this only because I remember how mad Darcy Sullivan was when he wrote a review for The Comics Journal where half of it talked about what a great title "Fuck" was and how appropriate to the material it was. Plus, as many of our country's First Ladies can attest, I just sort of like typing dirty words. Update: Stefan Dinter writes in to note that it was published under that same title in 1994 by Jochen Enterprises.

* I thought this was the best response I've read to revelations of Herge's loathing for Tintin that came out in letters of his sold at auction.

* when I was a kid I was obsessed with the idea of "scoop everything into a cart" shopping sprees, plotting out exactly how I'd do one if I ever received the opportunity. If I had managed to conceive of one happening in a store that sold comic books, I think I would have passed out a lot from conceptual, rapturous joy -- at least until I got it out of my system. Except for the promise of a brief aside, this shopping spree available to someone in Northern Ireland will have a more proper set financial consideration, but that's still a darn nice promotion.

* if I lived in Chicago, I would be signing up for one of Lynda Barry's writing/creativity conferences, even if I had to sell blood to do it. Not my blood, necessarily, but still.

* Todd Allen takes the opportunity of the Robert Kirkman vs. Brian Michael Bendis "debate" earlier this year over career paths to look at how much money people make through the Image deal and non-mainstream comics generally. While his conclusion -- no one's making much, few are making anything at all, and it's good to sell a lot of comic books -- may not be earth-shattering to any folks with more than a passing interest in the business end of comics, watching Allen walk through the numbers is great fun.

* the blogger John Jakala wonders after the logic of a super-ambitious hardcovers program from Marvel, and its potential to flood that part of the market.

* finally, I was in a comic shop the other day and a 45-year-old woman came charging into the store and declared that she heard Batman was going to die and she wanted to make sure she reserved ten copies of the comic book because she missed out on "the investment" of Captain America's death. Upon further overheard chatter, those of us shopping learned she couldn't afford to have her car fixed (why she bicycled over) and had been out of a job for three months (why she was there in the middle of the day). I think that's the kind of thing in which we can all take pride.
 
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