Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* so I guess there's another round of Watchmen prequel rumors out there. I don't really have any opinion on that, other than I'm not at all interested in seeing what results. Artists I'm not interested in means they'll make art I'm not interested in; artists I'm interested in I'd rather see them doing their own stuff. I never in my entire life thought about Watchmen and had a desire for seeing more of those characters or that world, let alone versions not involving Alan Moore. I guess I can just remain glad they never made a tone-deaf movie adaptation featuring Rorshach doing spinning kung fu... wait. Shit.

* seriously, though, wouldn't a company like DC be better off just investing in their top talent in a way that gave them a shot at another cash cow like that? Like one prestige series slot a year they developed with care and promoted with fervor? It feel broken and cynical more than usual in comics this holiday.

* the writer Paul Tobin is doing another one of his site series about various favorite things, this time about favorite female characters like Mary Jane Watson and Scarlet Witch. Those are almost always entertaining.

* good on Dean Haspiel donating his massive mini-comics collection to the Library Of Congress.

* a few folks sent me a link to this squabble between a mainstream comics writer and a mainstream comics editor over a crack regarding sales numbers. It feels very CompuServe circa 1994 to me. I guess it's refreshing now that I no longer spend time on message boards to see that grown men will still argue things like "all I posted was the fact; it wasn't a criticism" and "you never refuted the fact" with a straight face. The value system suggested is sort of interesting, too -- one of the intriguing things about editing a bunch of Journal interviews from the 1970s like I once did was how seriously some of the mainstream guys took numbers as the last word on so many things, despite what would seem massive contextual evidence that might not make whatever point they favor as clear as they'd like it to be.

* go, look: Richard Sala draws Santa Claus.

* The Milford Daily News profiles Nathan Schreiber's work on a new health care reform comic book.

* you can now support Team Cul-De-Sac through the purchase of custom stamps featuring Richard Thompson's characters.

* Andy Burns talks to Mark Powers. Someone at Network Awesome talks to Richard Sala. S.W. Conser talks to Vera Brosgol.

* this Brian Hibbs essay and resulting comments thread about digital comics buying habits is quite fascinating.

* Charles Yoakum on Parker: The Martini Edition. Sean Gaffney on Wonder Vol. 1. Sean T. Collins on The End Of The Fucking World Part One. Greg McElhatton on Freddy Stories. Johanna Draper Carlson on Charley's War: Hitler's Youth, Meanwhile on the iPad and Picket Line. Glen Weldon on Lost In The Andes.

* Eddie Campbell reads deeper meaning into an Art Spiegelman interview with the BBC.

* finally, another holiday sale, this time from Dustin Harbin featuring his prints, and another gift guide, this time from the CBLDF for their Spirit Of Giving campaign.
 
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