Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* it's worth a reminder that the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund can use your donations and you can make them right up until the end of the year for tax-deduction purposes.

* no idea that Gabrielle Bell had a little portrait gallery on her site. She's accepting commissions again.

* so apparently some art slipped out from a Watchmen 2 project? Something like that, anyway. I'm trying to think of a project in another medium that has that combination of publishing-news intrigue -- the amount of poorly-defined stance-taking for or against this thing is going to be pretty awesome to behold -- and in-advance critical disinterest if not outright disdain for the object itself. I guess that one Gone With The Wind sequel book comes close. Maybe something like the Odd Couple sequel stuff that Lemmon and Matthau did works in the same way, on a reduced level. I know people that like The Two Jakes so I won't go there. Return To Oz, maybe? Although I sort of like that one.

* speaking of iconic 1980s comics making a reappearance: some Nexus work will run in Dark Horse Presents. That's a totally different thing in ways that matter, of course.

* Graeme McMillan points to a Paolo Rivera Daredevil cover and a video about its making.

* I'm not sure how seriously one can take the content of any kind of PR-busting rhetoric from a competitor, but it's fun to watch the back-and-forth.

* Heidi MacDonald of The Beat sent along a link to this article from Torsten Adair about generic advice for comics publishers in their web site efforts, saying it was "surely worth a link." I don't know that I'd link to it otherwise, but I always find it interesting when site producers ask for links and for which articles they make this request.

* Shaun Manning talks to Karl Moline. Dave Richards talks to Jason Aaron. Chris Arrant talks to Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Steven Heller profiles Bill Griffith.

* it's best-of-comics season. CBR has started their top 100 list. Brian Truitt at USA Today provides a best-of list of artists and writers that from my initial scan completely ignores any and all art comics. I think that's deeply weird at this late date, but everyone can make their own list and certainly lots of people in comics still only see comics as extending as far as the offbeat genre material from Image Comics. That same publicaton's top graphic novels lists here, including Truitt's, are a little more inclusive. Glen Weldon at NPR has a list up, and that's worth pulling out the individual choices:

* A Bride's Story, Vol. I
* Animal Man
* Anya's Ghost
* Aquaman
* Big Questions
* Casanova: Avaritia
* Criminal: Last of the Innocent
* Daredevil
* Daytripper
* Demon Knights
* Habibi
* Hark! A Vagrant!
* Locke and Key
* Marineman
* Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910-2010
* Onward Toward Our Noble Deaths
* Pogo: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
* Stargazing Dog
* The Drops of God
* Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man
* Wandering Son
* Wonder Woman

The bad news is that Weldon goes the "most memorable" route instead of really sitting down and making some hard choices. I say that because I personally find the latter exercise much more valuable. The good news is that it's a thoroughly linked-up piece. Also, that Mark Twain book Weldon lists is pretty clearly an illustrated work of prose. It's really good, and I'm a big fan of loose definitions, but that's a book with pictures. Here's one last list for the day, from Comics Bulletin.

* if you're still in the mood, there are two nice Christmas-related links from Sequential here and here. Daryl Cagle showcases some editorial cartooning of the season here.

* Chris Mautner praises the virtues of Sweatshop. You can find the individual issues for less than a buck a pop with a little looking, so I'm not sure it needs to be collected. It really works in that format, though, and is worth a tag-on purchase if you're comics shopping.

* finally, congratulations to Levon and Lila Jihanian on the birth of their daughter, Olympia Laurel Jihanian.
 
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