Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* two goofballs sell fake Comic-Con badges and pay a bigger price both literally and figuratively for the deed.

* Brigid Alverson reviews the e-book version of Parker: The Outfit.

* today's lost bookmark that I didn't end up using, and in this case I have no idea why, is Gabe Bridwell's massive write-up of his Atlantic Center For The Arts experience working with and learning from a trio of established cartoonists and a bunch of up and coming ones. I am so fond of personal-experience blogging of the old-fashioned kind, and this fits the bill nicely.

* what's out this week.

* the critic Tucker Stone presents his top 20 for 2010. Johanna Draper Carlson picks the best manga of 2010. A mystery person -- or person I guess I should know who it is -- at Manga Xanadu presents a similar list.

* not comics: luckily, this has never been my problem.

* notes on Absolute All Star Superman.

* again, I see this Charles Yoakum piece as another instance of anecdotal support for the notion that the things afflicting sales in print comic books aren't the kind of things you can fix and see a short-term, measurable benefit.

* a bit of art: Roger Langridge draws the cast from Father Ted, one of the best of its era. First Second continues its peeks at oddball art from Paul Pope in his forthcoming Battling Boy. Actually, it's probably lovely, luscious and completely sensible art and just looks odd to me in these small snippets.

* this is a very curious bunch of top news stories for 2010. A couple of those stories I wouldn't have remembered asked to write out fifty such stories in comics for 2010. Then again, it's not my list.

* comics historian RC Harvey says goodbye to Brenda Starr in two parts. If Dirk Deppey being let go is part of a bunch of forthcoming changes at TCJ, I hope they'll consider not breaking up their pieces as part of those changes. There's really no reason to do that anymore other than trying to maximize hits.

* finally, there were a number of tributes to Stan Lee up around the Internet yesterday for The Man's 88th birthday. Here's one from Mark Evanier.
 
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