Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the Center For Cartoon Studies received a nice Christmas present: the post office building in White River Junction, Vermont. It will host offices and the Schulz Library and look generally impressive. I got socks.

* Dan Kois over at NPR picks his graphic novels of the year. They are:

+ Habibi, Craig Thompson (Pantheon)
+ Pinocchio, Winshluss (Last Gasp)
+ Who Is Jake Ellis? Vol. 1, Nathan Edmondson and Tonci Zonjic (Image)
+ Of Lamb, Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter (McSweeney's)
+ Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn And Quarterly)
+ Troop 142, Mike Dawson (Secret Acres)

Runners-up are Daytripper, The Death-Ray, Farm 54, Gingerbread Girl, Hark! A Vagrant and One Soul.

* Sean Gaffney provides his thoughts on the year in manga that was 2011.

* Alex Dueben talks to Mahmud Asrar and Ernie Colon. Eli Valley talks to Drew Friedman. Lauren Davis profiles Lars Brown.

* this year's crop of Republican presidential candidates picks their favorite superheroes, or something. I thought they'd all choose Prez.

* I can't recall ever seeing this specific Jack Kirby image before. I mean, I sure I have, I just can't remember it.

* not comics: I like just about everything Anne Ishii writes.

* here is a list of collected editions for which one may look out in 2012.

* Sean T. Collins on The Armed Garden. Sean Gaffney on Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Vol. 10. Don MacPherson on Reed Gunther #5-6. Greg McElhatton on A Waste Of Time. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Jim Henson's Tale Of Sand. It must be the holiday gift season, because here's Johnny Bacardi with a selection of reviews. KC Carlson on The Quality Companion.

* via Gary Tyrrell comes news that Child's Play hit their $2M goal this year, as folks expected they would. Congratulations and all respect to the organizers of that fine charity.

* Dean Abbey brought my attention to this piece on Yuichi Yokoyama. Thanks, Dean.

* last week's Tucker Stone interview here at CR drove Martin Wisse to recall his own disillusionment with a certain kind of comics consumption.

* finally, Ward Sutton reviews in brief all the books he wasn't able to review in full this year.
 
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