Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the inaugural Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival is being held this weekend; the guest list and programming sound fantastic.

* here's audio from the Mawil/Trondheim appearance in Glasgow.

* here's some good news: the cartoonist Oliver East is selling original pages. His original pages should make fine wall art for the discriminating comics consumer.

* the writer Sean Collins analyzes statements by mainstream comics point men Dan DiDio (DC) and Joe Quesada (Marvel) on the subject of "event fatigue." That's a comics term indicating that after X number of universe-shattering, paradigm-shifting, things-will-never-be-the-same-again mini-series, readers begin to get tired of them -- the same way a 20-story building would be amazing in Anderson, Indiana but isn't something you even look at twice in Chicago.

* not comics: here's an article on motion comics I haven't read yet.

* not comics: I'm not at all interested in the particulars of last weekend's Tiger Woods story, but I'm fascinated by this editorial by an AP sports reporter and wonder if it doesn't contain a multitude of attitudes that have helped doomed a certain model of journalism.

* not comics: the pro football hall of fame class should be Smith, Rice, Carter, Jackson, Hayes and Labeau.

* also not exactly comics: Eric Burns-White would like to remind you that easy access trumps content every single time.

* Jim Woodring's comics also sound cool in other languages.

* missed it: apparently, there are lot of comics people in Portland...?

* the Association Of American Editorial Cartoonists has assembled its list of 2010 deadlines for various contests and awards.

* an old home movie has surfaced of a selection of European comics greats celebrating Peyo's 50th birthday.

* when I first worked for a newspaper back in the late 1980s, the entertainment reporter was always writing articles about the "sexiest women on TV" or whatever, which we figured out later on was his way of getting these people to write him a letter or acknowledge the article in some way. He was ahead of his time.

* finally, Patrick Wensink would like you to enter his coloring contest.
 
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