Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this is apparently a link to Stan Lee reading The Night Before Christmas, but I'm too scared to click on it.

* Diamond has announced the full line-up for FCBD. There are several comics there I would like, and several others other people would like.

* for everyone that had to memorize something similar as some sort of bizarre pre-Christmas vacation pageant-related punishment, "We Are Winter's Jewels..." completed.

* during a time of year we honor cool guys with beards, Stefan Dinter sends along a link to a picture of Rick Griffin that neither of us have seen before. Thanks, Stefan.

* does anyone out there know about the two barracks day-room walls at Fort Dix, New Jersey decorated with nebbishes by their creator, Herb Gardner? I've had a soldier who was there at the time ask if I have any more information on that. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

* not comics: the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com digs up word of another, very serious-sounding Bone movie project in the works.

* not comics: by "bizarre" I assume he means "awesome."

* PWCW has a selection of photos taken at four or five comics shows from throughout the calendar year, if that's a way you remember comics.

* Dan Kois of New York has named his best 10 for 2009:

1. Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
2. The Photographer Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefevre (First Second)
3. I Kill Giants Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura (Image)
4. A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (D&Q)
5. Far Arden, Kevin Cannon (Top Shelf)
6. Stitches, David Small (WW Norton)
7. 20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa (Viz)
8. You'll Never Know, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
9. Miss Don't Touch Me, Hubert and Kerascoet (NBM)
10. Afrodisiac, Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca (AdHouse)

I actually like this list quite a bit without agreeing with it. There are some obviously significant works and then some super-weird choices, too, but Kois doesn't seem to have made some of his more surprising picks just to be contrary.

* the writer John Seven made a list of best archival projects of the decade: Complete Peanuts, Charles Schulz (Fantagraphics); Explainers, Jules Feiffer (Fantagraphics); I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets and You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation, Fletcher Hanks (Fantagraphics); Humbug (Fantagraphics); Locas, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics); Manga Kamishibai, Eric P. Nash (Abrams); Showcase Presents, Various (DC); The Spirit Archives, Will Eisner (DC); Supermen: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes, Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics); and Will Eisner Library (W.W. Norton).

* Tokyopop attempts to make a criminal of Chris Butcher, and Chris Butcher is not having it.

* not comics: so I got what I think is a little bit screwed on a Christmas t-shirt order from the people doing Tony Millionaire's latest round of t-shirts. It's a minor screwing, no big deal, the company disagrees and is trying to make it up, everything will be okay, but it occurred to me I wanted to apologize if anyone reading this site got caught the same way on any commercial activity to which you were directed by this site.

* finally, it looks like the writer Neil Gaiman will be the guest editor on next year's Best American Comics offering. The last two guest editors were Charles Burns and Lynda Barry. As far as I know, the series editor position is still held by Matt Madden and Jessica Abel. Any dinks out there that take this as a sign that the anthology will finally have some awesome mainstream comics in it after years of taste oppression by Indy Comics Overlords should be reminded that Lynda Barry wanted some Batman comics in hers and DC wasn't hearing it.
 
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