Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a holiday present for me: a big interview with Joe Sacco, about a year after his Footnotes In Gaza came out and punched me in the heart. This would be a nice present, too. And a chat with Richard Thompson is a nice stocking-stuffer.

* here's the text from RF Outcault's obituary in Editor & Publisher.

* Robot 6 picks up on D+Q's Spring 2011, the centerpiece of which looks to be Chester Brown's latest.

* Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso speak a little bit about the Architects promotion that Marvel recently did, bringing attention to some of their core writing talent and -- I think, anyway -- drawing a distinction between themselves and their competition. I guess there are fans out there flipping out about this, but I imagine that kind of churning up some fan interest is part of the idea well.

* Lucy Knisley would like to sell you something. Not you, active and aggressive Warner Brothers copyright lawyer. The rest of you.

* Dan Slott and Brenda Starr. Jillian Tamaki and Maclean's Magazine. Steve Bissette and Swamp Thing.

* congratulations to Jill Thompson and Evan Dorkin for a second printing of Beasts Of Burden, a book that published in serial form at very low numbers.

* not comics: newspaper industry magazine of record E&P has torn down their pay wall, which I suppose it's good news although I have to admit it's been three or four years since they've had anything up behind their wall I wanted to access. Speaking of articles from Editor & Publisher, I think this kind of thing will become more common in the months and years ahead.

* congratulations to Sean Collins on completing his season-long investigation into the works of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez.

* Chris Sims responds to the AV Club Toth Review flap in Chris Sims fashion. While that's a fun article, I'm not going to deny I wanted to use the word "flap" one more time before the year was out.

* in holiday-related news of the minor and friendly sort: Roger Ebert remembers that fine comics and Christmas classic Deck Us All With Boston Charlie. Keith Knight has a 2011 calendar available blending work from his various strip offerings. They're continuing to sell Darwyn Cooke art to benefit Hero Initiative.

* not comics: I was hoping for a bald, drug-addled architect.

* Marvel announced the latest of its space-opera titles with a little bit more oomph than I remember coming with the other series in this corner of their publishing empire. I imagine one reason is because there's a certain kind of fan for whom these are perfect comics series. In fact, the shame of the shape of the current marketplace is that Marvel can do all this patient, hard work re-establishing a whole bunch of its characters, giving creators leeway and room for years underneath the radar, but then when it comes time for the payoff there really isn't any -- there's just not a wider audience for serial superhero space comics to be had.

* finally, Stephen Bissette on Gary Arlington.
 
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