Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Dirk Deppey has been laid off by Fantagraphics. Deppey's blog ¡Journalista! has been the on-line voice of industry standard-bearer The Comics Journal since its inception, and it has remained a primary point of emphasis throughout the magazine's current, more web-involved run. Its noticeable absence during a hiatus period when he took over the print Journal facilitated the launch of this site. I wish him the best in all future endeavors. Dirk's twitter account is here, if you wish to send him a message or be there to see what he does next; you could also leave something in the comments thread here, or here.

* great publishing news: DC Comics is reprinting Sugar And Spike in their Archives program. Not the format I'd choose and the fact that it's been so long while so much other stuff has been reprinted is worthy of criticism from the standpoint of that company acting as a caretaker for that particular artistic legacy, but good to hear.

* it's not a formal best of 2010 list, but you can't go wrong reading a group of reviews touted by Ken Parille, of worthy works from this calendar year.

* I keep forgetting to link to this Darryl Cunningham comic on climate change. I've also managed to all but blow off this comic on the Siegel/Shuster story.

* not comics: it was fun to see Andrew Sullivan's blog spotlight the Canterbury, 200 feet from the front door of one of the places I lived while in Seattle. It truly meets the definition of providing a place to do a lot of public things but not a place you'd make a destination of from anywhere other than almost directly nearby.

* Corey Blake outlines the comic book resume of Los Angeles.

* not one but two pieces on comics at Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog. I like how Coates always roots his posts about comics in the comic books with which he's familiar, I imagine because those are the ones that are important to him.

* not comics: my favorite comics blogger Kathleen David, who has an extensive theater background, reviews Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. I'm not sure any appraisal of the show as art will matter if they keep on injuring their stuntpeople and actors. I once saw a show where someone was injured and it was super-disturbing; watching someone fall like that would be an awful experience.

* apparently Lone Wolf & Cub will be among the first wave of Dark Horse digital releases.

* Paul Di Filippo reviews The Littlest Pirate King. Brad Mackay reviews X'ed Out.

* The Devil And Maggie Chascarillo.

* I am lucky enough that Devlin Thompson semi-frequently e-mails me with oddball, mostly comics-related photos, imagery and posts he collects off of what I'm guessing is a fairly lively feed. Here and here are two of the latest.

* there is now a blog of cover re-dos rejected by the Covered blog. Apparently, Robert Goodin rejects his own work, which is admirable and weird.

* Nathan Schreiber works in the autobiographical realm for a bit with the short story, "I Came As A Rat." Cameo by Charles Burns.

* all these racist dipshits out there would make me root for Thor save for the fact I can't take them seriously. The only thing that's sort of interesting about this stuff is how open racists sound a lot like comics fans irritated because they think an actor is too ugly to play a certain role, or have some other physical objection beyond that which is necessary to suspend belief, or feel zapped by the dreaded political correctness ray when a character of color takes on a superhero mantle usually held by some white dude. It's probably best to ignore this kind of thing as a general rule, although someone really needs to do a dramatization of the guys behind the Thor boycott movement and have black actors play all those roles.

* I was totally baffled as to why Bob Levin was talking about God in a review of Wilson, and then I realized that the Greatest Writer About Comics didn't write the review, he just sent it to me. The review is by J. Marc Schmidt, and is well worth your time.

* it's great that Scott McCloud is feeling better.

* buy ROM art to help Bill Mantlo. Buy Monsters & Dames to help Puget Sound area little kids.

* I once wrote that if mainstream companies had these imagery-related coming-soon campaigns, I think I would have had fun with them. That's why I bought the Amazing Heroes Preview Special, after all. But I'm not sure how far and to what degree of abstraction I would have remained interested, either.

* looking forward to the Nick Bertozzi take on the Lewis & Clark story.

* this is funny if you think of the cast of Thor: The Mighty Avenger taking gigs the other versions of the character are too busy to bother with.

* finally, here's a lushly-illustrated review of a comics show held at a prominent architectural museum in Paris.
 
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