Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this will likely be the most amusing thing you'll read all day: Jumpstart That Comics Career.

* hey, if everyone on planet earth is going to link to one thing, why wouldn't that one thing be the biggest collection yet of pre-Calvin & Hobbes work from Bill Watterson I've seen yet?

* the writer Neil Kleid talks at length about his contributions to a forthcoming "80-page giant" DC comic: a 10-page Perry White story done with Dean Haspiel. This is the kind of writing you almost never see anymore on-line because of the prevalence of twitter and the saturation of PR-driven interviews, so I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

* a bunch of you wrote in to tell me that there indeed has been toilet paper with sequential narratives to read as they roll out. That's... well, that's sort of weird. But good to know. I need something to talk about at these holiday parties.

* this scene from X-Men: The Hidden Years fairly creeps me out for some reason. That whole comic series -- John Byrne's re-imagining of what happened to Marvel's superhero mutants between the cancellation of their first series and the resumption of the series in 1975 -- is fairly unsettling, and I'm not 100 percent certain why. I suspect it may have something to do with it lacking the small-r romance of the most successful iterations.

* I would rather these remain secrets, but that's just me. See: sausage, eating, making.

* I just wanted to say in the spirit of the holiday season how grateful I am that Gary Tyrrell blogs about webcomics over at Fleen. If he were to leave that particular gig, I would be even more lost than I usually am when it comes to webcomics. Here's a typical day worth of links to which I wouldn't dream of having access to otherwise.

* these fake comics destination posters are quite adorable. So is this six-panel adaptation of the Richard Donner Superman movie.

* Wolverine hung around with a woman not somebody else's girlfriend and/or older than 13 long enough to father a child? On the other hand, this explains some of the cover art I've seen in passing over the years. I am so on top of superhero comic books.

* finally, in Christmas shopping news, here are today's links of note: Mike Rhode walks Washington City Paper readers through a panoply of graphic novel offerings for the holiday season. KAL has just launched his on-line store, including that lovely 2011 calendar he did for The Economist.
 
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