Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's a not-comics story to note that the movie version of 30 Days of Night won its opening weekend box-office wise; it becomes much, much more of a comics story when we recall that moving material from comics to screen plays a big role in how the comic book publisher IDW presents itself to the world and to the industry, and how freelancers approach that company and those few others that may be able to offer the same opportunity to their creators.

* add one more thing to the list of things I need to see before I die.

* Greg Topalian receives a promotion at Reed Exhibition but will still work on the New York Comic-Con and the brand-spanking new New York Anime Fest. Apparently, Lance Fensterman will be brought over from the BEA crew to do some work on NYCC.

* we should all go back and add a line to our obituaries for James Babcock, the longtime Sacramento Bee sports cartoonist that died over the summer: he was a primary inspiration for Thomas Kinkade. Whether that line has the word "evil, unfortunate outcome" in it is up to you.

* the publicity for a cartoonist exhibit can sometimes give you fresh insight on their legacy, because it's basically someone invested in that cartoonist presenting to the public the reason they're important enough to go see. In William Steig's case, it's fascinating to see this article focus on a sometimes little-appreciated aspect of his career: the fact that he was the first self-directed creator to work in that very important and influential corner of cartooning.

* this reads like a fairly standard "here's how the comics page has changed" announcement, with the potential sole difference that until this piece I can't remember a newspaper coming right out and saying they're likely to dump a strip that goes from creator-controlled to legacy strip.

* with the specter of prosecution no longer haunting him, Nate Fisher makes a long post at Heidi MacDonald's blog, The Beat.

* comics pundit and critic Chris Mautner expresses frustration with the amorphous, definitely-not-ever-in-detail thrust of recent comics-related dialog; Eddie Campbell seems more genuinely baffled than directly antagonized, at least for today, over why so much time is wasted on certain points; if I'm understanding Dirk Deppey correctly, he believes that the way Newsarama framed a discussion of a recent superhero comic female hero beat down by Brian Bendis in an interview with Bendis is more revealing than anything said about the defensibility of that scene. Do a find on "your tongue" to get to the story.
 
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