December 5, 2007
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* my spam filter automatically sorted away an e-mail called "Dave Cooper's Impressive Piece," but I happened to open my bulk mail folder and found it was
a report from Brad Mackay on Dave Cooper's astounding new piece of art. Really, you want to see this.
* major film studio Warner Brothers
has apparently begun a six-month campaign to make me not want to see their superhero movie.
You too, rummy. Is it called viral marketing because it makes some of us queasy?
* the blogger Alan Gardner
provides a first look at Signe Wilkinson's upcoming strip Family Tree. It occurs to me that this may be the strip that Ted Rall has reportedly been looking for since moving into a consulting position at United Features: a quirky but character-driven rather than gag-driven feature that recalls without copying in any way the beats and rhythms and family interplay of
For Better or For Worse.
* the writer John Jackson Miller
remembers the magazine
Comics & Games Retailer, to end print publication with its February issues, and makes a good point about how publications like that are in some ways a constant scramble from beginning to end.
* I can't decide if
this headline is oddly poetic or just silly.
* if you're a comics news buff, you might want to join me going through
this massive, thorough-looking Comixtalk take on the year 2007 at some point in the next few days.
*
this profile of the recent
Dandy annual compares it to the first
Dandy comics and comes away horrified by the sanitized and dumbed-down qualities... of the former.
*
this essay sweetly suggests that for some readers outside of the US, advertisements in American comic books sometimes operated as windows into our junk-culture universe.
* The DC Comics web initiative Zuda Comics
has launched their second round of potential big corporate/little guy synergy superstars. Vote early, vote often.
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