Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the first alt-comic gigantic release of the Fall/Christmas season, Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings, will go to a second printing and was well-represented at Frankfurt with several foreign edition deals. (October 24 post)

* The DC Comics webcomics initiative known as Zudacomics.com has named its initial line-up of features, what looks to be a heady mix of known-but-not-famous and genuinely unknown creators. While the press release boasts that the strips offer a wide array of genres, I'm basically seeing nine fantasy comics (some with cross-genre chaser) and one diary comic which based on the work available by the creator on the web may have fantasy elements. Like most great artistic enterprises in our modern age, the ten strips will be nurtured by immediately becoming subject to a vote upon by Zuda readers, with the winning strip will receive a year-long contract. We wish all the participants good luck, in all phases of their participation.

* that site launches on the 30th.

* Jack Elrod of Mark Trail will receive the Outstanding Forestry Journalism Award from the Society of American Foresters, to be given out during the national convention in Portland, Oregon.

* that's one cool Jaime Hernandez poster for Bob Dylan's radio show.

* it's awesome that NBM is bringing the blog and book version of Lewis Trondheim's Les Petits Riens to English-language audience. It's been on a couple of my best of lists. Still, I have to admit, the language that keeps showing up in announcements that suggests the blog and book are being created from whole cloth rather than being translated from the French-language version kind of bugs the crap out of me. It's so parochial, as if a comics work doesn't exist until we can read it. Translating work and re-presenting it for a new audience is a great achievement all in itself, or I hope it can be seen that way; it shouldn't need finessing.

* I take it from this post on grumbling fans that Marvel is delaying publication on an issue or two of its "One More Day" Spider-Man plot-line, which is expected to have some significance in terms of that character's status quo.

* the saga of one-time Danish Cartoons protest leader Said Jaziri continues.

* I wasn't aware that Lars Vilks's work including Muhammed imagery that led to a death thread was rejected three times by Swedish gallery owners.

* Fantagraphics has published its first prose novel, Laura Warholic, which is worth noting for a ton of what should be obvious reasons.

* not comics: Johnny Ryan is one of four artists providing cover art to the magazine Vice that can be converted to paper Halloween masks. When I worked for The Comics Journal a hundred years ago, I always wanted to do a section of paper masks with various comics figure caricatures, like Bill Willingham's killer Jim Shooter portrait.
 
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