Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* go here for a very nice story from Richard Thompson about meeting Brant Parker.

* there aren't enough comics-related entries in the overall scheme of things for me to separate Grant Goggans' 2009 review into its own posting, but if like me you enjoy Goggans' writing you should go look at it anyway.

* The Cartoonist continues to hit PBS stations.

* D&Q is excited their book has gold level status with FCBD.

* Curt Purcell's experience as a consumer trying to find books to buy to satisfy his current curiosity about the DC Universe would seem to support Chris Butcher's contention that the way DC operates its hardcover/softcover tracks may do more harm than good.

* I hadn't noticed until John Platt informed me, but the writer Warren Ellis announced Thursday that he would be shutting down his Bad Signal e-mail list at the New Year. Bad Signal was one of the most successful of the early on-line creator outreach efforts. "Something has to go, and the Signal is it," Ellis wrote in the announcement. "It has the lowest response rate of everything I do. And I think the end of a decade is a good time to shut it off." Ellis announced it early to allow folks the time to grab onto his sites RSS Feed or something similar if they're inclined.

* well, don't leave one at home with your spouse, anyway.

* can anyone tell me who National Weather Report Man is here?

* that is one big-ass Thor poster.

* Johanna Draper Carlson, comics critic and comics industry consumer advocate, digs a bit into a tussle between a pair of webcomic makers and Atlanta's Dragon*Con: basically, there was some confusion over their registration at exhibitors, it was rectified on the floor, the incident is now being used as a reason to deny them exhibitor credentials at next year's show. I think Johanna basically has it right.

* Noah Berlatsky talks about the news TCJ.com.

* retailer hates fatties, self.

* finally, this is the closest any of the Tiger Woods cartoons have come to making me laugh.
 
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