Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* our friends at Cartoon Books has made official their announcement of a color one-volume edition of Bone. I'm a great fan of that work, and think it looks great in color -- I have to admit, I'm not sure I understand how a book that looks good in black-and-white also looks that good in color except that maybe Jeff Smith leads a super-charmed life -- and I'm looking forward to seeing the book, re-reading the saga, and adding it to the library. By the way, Jeff's not kidding when he writes that technology finally made this possible. My understanding is that they were having difficulties finding a way to do the printing right on this one for quite some time now.

* reading comics is still a great, great thing.

* Gabrielle Bell had an amazing year on-line comics-wise. This is her latest.

* speaking of on-line comics, two related to Christmas are on the heavy link-to circuit right now, and deservedly so. The first is the hybrid-ish "The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas" and the second is Kate Beaton's excellently-told short story "Cookies."

* Rob Tornoe has a piece up on the sort-of new E&P on political cartoons.

* this artificially thrown-together but very real impasse between retailer Brian Hibbs and Marvel mainstay Tom Brevoort over the issue of overlapping titles and the effect on sales overall is exactly the kind of rhetorical construction that worries me. They're not really getting at precisely the same things, and when we look at these arguments as two competing views I'm not sure numbers being employed measure those sides according to their merit. I'd suggest the way the Direct Market is set up -- its near-blind ordering, the fear of being stuck without copies, the way momentum keeps some figures artificially inflated -- softens or outright conceals structural damage being done. I think we're in enough of an obvious, slow-boil crisis that action should be taken towards the best outcome as opposed to a manageable, advantageous one.

* hey, it's Kenny Penman! I like that guy. Speaking of liking, here's a Facebook page to show your appreciation of longtime TCJ blogger prime Dirk Deppey.

* not comics: I'm not holding out a ton of hope that the Jeffrey Catherine Jones documentary will meet its Kickstarter goals based on the non-flood of responses in its initial days, but it'd be nice if it happened.

* third-best part about working there.

* I totally missed this, but looking at something on the TCJ message board reminded me that Peter Bagge did a three-part strip about Isabel Paterson for Reason that ran across three consecutive issues -- one, two, three -- and is still on-line.

* if you're a comics fan that hasn't bookmarked Uncivilized Books, you'll probably want to.

* I like that little blond woman in the Thor outfit.

* goodbye, Miss Grundy. I have no specific memories of you.

* Matt Seneca picks his comic of the year, and after the performance he gave on CR yesterday, I'm inclined to believe every word he says.

* I don't know but about 60 percent of the people in this illustration, and that's with getting to call half of them "Dr. Who." I'm sure it will thrill a lot of people, though.

* I'm going to do my best this holiday to burn off some lingering bookmarks. Here are some for today: Diamond an exempt company from new health care laws; I know I ran a link to some variation of this story, that Japanese publishers are putting pressure on Apple to curtail the facilitation of illegal copying of their material; the CBLDF is concerned about the seizure of electronic device with adult comics on them; and, finally, the Village Voice and IGN name their comics of the year.

* and then suddenly, as if out of of nowhere, an English-language Tezuka bibliography. This is the weirdest holiday posting season ever. While we're in that translated-into-English part of the comics world, here are 25 forthcoming manga titles worthy of note.

* finally, I haven't read the article all the way through, but I agree that the multi-player role-playing game set in and around the DC Universe could be a huge, huge deal. I'm convinced of the possibility, although I couldn't in any way predict if that success happens or not. Not my field + general sucking at prognostication.
 
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