Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Dean Haspiel remembers Harvey Pekar for EW's year-end issue.

* while so many folks have shut it down for the year 2010, Robert Boyd is still hanging in there, hacking away at the BCGF pile: part three, part four. Boy, it looks like a lot of intriguing comics were available for sale at that show.

* the very nice Craig Fischer discusses the closure of Thought Balloonists and the migration of himself and partner-in-blogging Charles Hatfield to a new TCJ-aligned blog.

* Lo-Karr!

* not comics: sad to see that Heather Havrilesky won't be writing about television for Salon as of... well, as of last week, it seems. I am very much looking forward to reading her book. Havrilesky wrote Filler, one of the most successful early web-comics.

* Matt Dembicki discusses and links to the SPACE nominations.

* two deaths of note, both much younger than I think most people would prefer their lives to end: Marc Henniquiau at age 52, Adrienne Roy at 57. Our condolences to friends and family.

* I'm not exactly sure why I bookmarked a Dan Dare gallery, but hey, here's a Dan Dare gallery.

* a bit of OTBP news regarding Peter Bagge.

* still adding to the Holiday Five For Friday, if anyone's interested.

* speaking of holidays, you can now buy a loved one a Hicksville t-shirt.

* hey, wow, neat.

* expert on all things Peanuts Nat Gertler wrote in about last weekend's Five For Friday Holiday Special:

"Michael Grabowski is, of course, correct in tagging 'Linus and Lucy' as a tune that is part of the Christmas scene without actually being about Christmas; he is, however, in error when he says that it premiered on A Charlie Brown Christmas. "Linus and Lucy" appears on Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the soundtrack for a documentary. While the documentary itself never aired, and was unreleased on home video until the next century (it's now available exclusively from the Charles M. Schulz Museum store), the soundtrack was released in 1964, the year before A Charlie Brown Christmas was produced. (The soundtrack is still available, under the shortened title A Boy Named Charlie Brown.)

* finally, it may be lost in whatever gets announced by Marvel big event-wise later this morning, but the artist Mark Bagley is returning to Marvel after a time at DC. Marvel does the right thing and makes it sound like a big deal even if you asked 10 comics fans five would probably say it is and five would say it isn't. But why not celebrate that kind of publishing move if you're a big comics company?
 
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