Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* as expected, Senator Ron Wyden has delayed the COICA bill. Let's hope this leads to better law.

* with news that IDW is repackaging Fish Police, I think that means everything has been collected now.

* not comics: Carol Tyler remembers Ron Santo.

* over at Comics Comics, Frank Santoro and a cast of dozens discuss why there are fewer and fewer good discussions of actual work, and why said discussions fail to capture what's exciting about comics right now.

* Marvel's plans to put a forthcoming issue of Fantastic Four into bags seems really weird to me, although these sales shenanigans are more of a danger because they become widespread, not an individual basis. They won't be overprinting this one, either, which is a move you pull in order to increase initial demand. That sort of seems like building a sail on the hood of a car that's stopped working -- there should be a way for good and notable comics to gain readers not through stunts -- but it's not like my bitching and moaning about it heals that system any more quickly.

* Matt Dembicki has a few photos up from the Cartoon Cult opening.

* maybe I'm not totally getting the point of this short essay on Marvel's Daredevil character, but didn't Ann Nocenti send him out into the wider world for an extended period of time? Leaving now hardly seems like the super clean break being claimed for it, or at least it seems like one with its own precedent.

* who wouldn't want to read comics printed on toilet paper? I'd even read really bad comics printed on toilet paper, at least I would the first half-dozen times I encountered them.

* congratulations to Mike Sterling for seven years at Progressive Ruin, a blog that's been part of my round-up (in the "Commentary" folder) since CR launched in 2004.

* Dan Zettwoch makes a print.

* not comics: this is horrible, but if you go to see that Spider-Man musical, doesn't a part of you maybe want to see something unfortunate happen? I mean, you wouldn't wish an injury on anyone, but the thing you'll tell your second spouse in 20 years is that you were on hand for one of Broadway's legendary disasters, right? Maybe they should work in a guy stuck on wires at some point during the show's final third just to give the people what they want.

* here's something potentially valuable: Gary Tyrrell opens up his mailbag and posts the links that point him to new webcomics.

* critics should submit to Fantagraphics. In a nice way, though.

* I'm not sure this proposal is the same thing, but I always thought DC should try making its Legion Of Super-Hero characters available to any fan writer or fan comics-maker that wanted to use them.

* finally, some Christmas-related material. Ben Towle lists all the items he has for sale here. Theo Ellsworth reminds there's still time to pick up something of his from the recent GR2 exhibit. Marc Bell has an Etsy store with all sorts of gorgeous Marc Bell things in it. And if you have $20,000 or more, why not put a bid in on this iconic Sam Gross cartoon gag?
 
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