Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jeff Smith has a three-page preview of the next issue of RASL up on his site.

* Sean T. Collins calls our attention two project-specific interviews with Grant Morrison at Comic Book Resources: Joe The Barbarian and Batman and Robin.

* I updated the wins Christmas post from the other day.

* I'm not exactly sure how the legal case against Tintin Au Congo is going, but the public airing of the issues as reported here sounds strident and addled. I'm not sure if there's any weight to a French culture minister coming out in favor of the books, or if you can even talk about this case in terms of being for or against the book.

* Didier Pasamonik at ActuaBD.com discusses a magazine profile of Blutch as his Angouleme starts to hurtle towards us with increasing speed: the article discusses the cartoonist's relationship to the classics, including such assertions that something like the Smurfs represents an act of complete creation that's slightly beyond the current generation.

* in case you missed it, there were also random comics news updates on Saturday and Sunday in order to better serve your comics news-gathering needs during the holiday season. These reports will continue every day until the end of the holiday run.

* working MP and practicing cartoonist Janardhana Swamy has an exhibition up in Bangladore.

* D&Q puts together a great selection of 1956 New Yorker advertisements.

* I'm surprised this Chris Mautner-penned primer on R. Crumb doesn't seem to mention the 1995 Fantagraphics collection Mr. Natural as a potential entry point to the great cartoonist's work.

* the writer and columnist Steven Grant presents a Gil Kane-drawn and Gil Kane-inked romance story.

* one of the outcomes of the last few years of changes in the newspaper industry is that wholesale changes on the comics page are more commonplace as individual publication try to put the best foot forward and/or operate out of any number of financial restrictions. The comics-page changes defined here would have been like 45 years of changes all at once in my hometown paper when I was growing up; doesn't seem so alarming now.

* not comics: hey, it's the Bennets.

* Joe Gross of the Austin-American Statesman picks a top 13 for 2009:

1. Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
2. A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn and Quarterly)
3. The Complete Jack Survives, Jerry Moriarty (Buenaventura Press)
4. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb, R. Crumb (W.W. Norton) and The Wolverton Bible, Basil Wolverton (Fantagraphics).
5. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW)
6. Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka, Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)
7. Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Al Columbia (Fantagraphics)
8. The Incredible Hercules, Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak and various (Marvel Comics); Captain America, Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting (Marvel Comics); Secret Six, Gail Simone and various (DC Comics); Detective Comics, Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams (DC Comics).
9. Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, Justin Green (McSweeney's)
10. You'll Never Know, Book One: A Good and Decent Man, C. Tyler (Fantagraphics)
11. Nicolas, Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly)
12. Scalped, Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera (DC/Vertigo)
13. Wasteland: The Apocalyptic Edition, Volume 1, Antony Johnston and Christopher J. Mitten (Oni Press)

It's a solid list, and the reasons for each choice are definitely worth reading through that initial link.

* finally, here's some tea-leaf reading about what's going on with the Marvel kids comics line. Basically, they're canceling the last two series that fall under their Marvel Adventures line, but either that line or something that performs its basic function is expected to return.
 
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