Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* here's an interview with one of the important under-the-general-radar figures in all of comics right now: Charlie Kochman of Abrams.

* the great Roger Langridge talks about attempting Barney Google-style comics.

* the Jeff Smith-focused documentary The Cartoonist continues its long roll-out on various PBS stations. It's definitely worth a look if it's on nearby, and worth dropping a postcard to your local PBS station to add it. My lingering memories are footage from a jaw-dropping Smith signing in terms of line-length and ages of the fans, and a great visit to a Columbus-area park that provided a lot of the visual references for portions of Bone. As always, Smith is pleasant company.

* the critic Matthew Brady follows up his appreciation of The Photographer with a close reading of a sequence from The Photographer.

* there's a lot of writing out there right now about jaded superhero fans leaving their one-time comic of choice. Again, I don't see this as all that interesting a statement about superhero comics as a kind of art -- people get tired of certain works through certain delivery systems all the time, it's part of life -- but a real danger for the mainstream companies in that their core engine depends a great deal on maximizing profit from hardcore fans in a way that makes them hard to replace.

* my obviously modest dream of there being a big movie with a comic book character in it and then people walk into a store and then the store people point to a single comic book and then people read it has been dashed. Although I guess Watchmen was like that, except for the part of people leaving the theater wanting more.

* a recommendation for Rich Tommaso.

* a recommendation for Rice Boy.

* the critic Graeme McMillan returns to his examination of classic X-Men comics, suggesting that a space opera plot line during Dave Cockrum's second run on the book was probably a gift to Cockrum more than an extension of the narrative as it had been unfurling.

* finally, some folks are asking why Wonder Woman wasn't included in DC's announcement of continuity-free re-telling of classic characters' origins in serialized graphic novels, especially as that's a character that might benefit from such an approach in a creative sense.
 
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