Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* over at TCJ, Roland Kelts analyzes the Tokyo Youth Ordinance Bill. That seems like pretty good reading if you only have time for one. Or if you're not newsy, maybe this short piece from Jeet Heer about the comics heritage of DeWitt Clinton High School will float your boat.

* the Center For Cartoon Studies Annual Appeal is out! The Center For Cartoons Studies Annual Appeal is out! Oh, I'm just kidding. The bigger point is please consider pledging support to this most excellent educational institution. I believe they've been around long enough now to have earned the institutional-level trust that precedes taking seriously an organization's request for aid. In other words, I don't think your money would be wasted by them not knowing what to do with it.

* Robot 6 has the best write-up on CCI's apparently successful test of a new ticketing system, including the massive numbers of people that want tickets to the four-day event. Wow, that's a lot of people.

* this interview with Dylan Meconis has a mostly-business feel.

* Robert Kirkman is writing and drawing a Spawn story. Speaking of Kirkman, Jason Woods notes that very few people have followed the model the writer outlined in his mini-manifesto a while ago, while a selection of alt-creators have followed a more traditional path of moving from well-received independent work to better-paying mainstream work.

* here's a list of underrated mainstream and near-mainstream serial titles for you to consider.

* the writer and editor Kristy Valenti speaks at length about writing introductions for comics works.

* Sean T. Collins seems to be showing off at this point, at least in turns of spinning dross into gold, as he follows a fine post on a comics writer saying a naughty with a lengthy disquisition on the state of superhero comics filtered through a forthcoming Steel comic book.

* J. Caleb Mozzocco goes to the library.

* finally, looking at something like this trailer for Iron Man #500 makes me wonder why a core strategy of the mainstream comics companies isn't to always have at least one title with the character's name in it (ideally just the character's name) and then treat that comic seriously as a core comic book, a comic book that could be someone's only comic book they read. I mean, I bet they think they do this, but I wonder if they really do this.
 
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