Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* if you haven't seen this widely-disseminated plea from cartoonists Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden asking for help identifying a Nancy strip they want to use in a book, please do right now.

* also, if you haven't looked at Nat Gertler's gallery of Christmas-related Peanuts books, that's a fun way to spend a few minutes. I like that cartoon. Even his dog is mocking Charlie Brown.

* the auctions to benefit Carla Hoffman and her husband Lance have apparently begun.

* did I forget to post a link to Douglas Wolk's X-Mas gift suggestions for the New York Times? Heck, I may have even missed posting a link to this glowing profile of Alison Bechdel, also from last week's Times.

* reviewer and comics consumer advocate Johanna Draper Carlson notes that Tokyopop is essentially openly bribing people to vote for them in the Nickelodeon comics awards, which probably shouldn't be funny but it's sort of hilarious.

* you don't see too many pieces that gather together a group of alt-comics cartoonists in order to discuss them and include the category Jewish as well as young and female.

* the great Domingos Isabelinho holds forth on the (putrid) state of comics criticism.

* finally, a bit of the not comics: there's probably some sort of pundit-style lesson I should explain to you regarding the meaning of the new Punisher movie tanking, which the linked-to article notes did worse than Howard The Duck box-office wise. The problem is that I don't know what lesson might be. This is one of Marvel's pre-existing deals, before they got into making their own movies, so I guess it really doesn't hurt their bottom line. Further, I imagine it could be spun as "Marvel knows best how to do Marvel movies." I'm told the movie isn't very good, I don't remember any affection for the character after the first one that made me think people wanted to see another film (except maybe for lead Thomas Jane, who turned it down), and Christmas is an odd time for a movie like that to come out, anyway.
 
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