Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* go here for Darryl Cagle's 2009 Year In Review.

* Stan Sakai and Chris Schweizer converse. Mark Evanier comments.

* Ken Parille has republished a fine 2006 essay on Ice Haven.

* Shahid Mahmood continues to press his racial profiling case from 2004.

* Jim Borgman and Keith Knight converse.

* the culturally-grounded disdain in the second paragraph of Bruce Handy's review of the new Hergé biography seems, ironically, very, very European. His reading of the comics may have special appeal to you if you also came to Tintin as an adult and attempted to "get" what makes its special. I'm quite jealous of the line, "mechanical drawing with the giggles," even if I might have used it differently.

* missed it: Pacific Northwest artist and Sequim Gazette cartoonist Tim Quinn was found dead in his apartment on December 19.

* the very smart, very well-read in comics Robert Boyd presents his top 15 for 2009. They are:

1) Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
2) You Are There, Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)
3) Jack Survives, Jack Moriarity (Buenaventura Press)
4) The Book of Genesis Illustrated, Robert Crumb (WW Norton)
5) George Sprott (1894-1975), Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)
6) The Complete Little Orphan Annie Vol. 3, Harold Gray (IDW)
7) Popeye Vol. 4, E.C. Segar (Fantagraphics)
8) Journey Vol. 2, William Messner-Loebs (IDW)
9) Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Vol. 8 (IDW)
10) Multiforce, Mat Brinkman (PictureBox Inc.)
11) Cecil and Jordan in New York, Gabrielle Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
12) Everyone Is Stupid Except Me, Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics)
13) You'll Never Know book 1: A Good and Decent Man, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
14) Map of My Heart, John Porcellino (Drawn and Quarterly)
15) Nine Ways to Disappear, Lilly Carre (Little Otsu)

There is a good bit of writing on each volume, with a voice that gets more critical the further it moves away from #1. Boyd also provides a fine pair of supplementary lists, so use that first link to check the whole thing out.

* The Beguiling has a big Boxing Day sale going on right now, with deep discounts on books like the one at left.

* not comics: here's a New York Times article on the book as expensive object that may remind many folks of past comics tussles over expensive editions. (thanks, Gil)

* not comics: Scott Pilgrim by August, probably.

* Zippy The Pinhead Vs. The Huffington Post.

* I sort of barely mentioned that all the Borders UK stores closed down right before Christmas. It's hard to be stunned anymore, but again with the mantra for our times: wow, that can't be good.

* if you're looking to spend some extra-Christmas cash or to send a bit of something to someone that hosted you over the holidays, John Kerschbaum's awesome museum puzzle is finally for sale on-line.

* finally, Ken Mahood leaves the Mail. Is there anything better than the phrase, "pocket cartoonist"? I think not. That's a nice run of representative cartoons, too, which usually gets short shrift in those retirement articles.
 
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