Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this New York Times report about the Supreme Court hearing arguments about pandering-class pornography, basically pornography that doesn't involve real-life people in its making, makes me think that didn't go well for the Free Speech absolutist element of the argument.

* book and comics industry blogger Ron Hogan goes to Manhattan's new Kinokuniya branch and likes what he sees; at the same time, he's grateful for the greater depth and breadth of selection available at other places in New York.

* Charlos Gary asks whether or not newspapers are ready for a cartoon revolving around a bi-racial character, characters or couple -- I don't see why they wouldn't be.

* the good folks at Editor & Publisher note that the airing of an American Masters focusing on Charles Schulz nudged the new biography Schulz and Peanuts up the Amazon.com sales charts. This well-traveled blog link takes to you a long post Schulz's 12 vital devices as selected by Schulz, basically recurring gags with a physical component or rigid set of expectations. When you think of all the devices that don't fit on this list -- Re-Run on the back of his mom's bicycle, the mind-blowing Charlie Brown in bed wondering about the nature of life and death strips, the Charlie Brown/Peppermint Patty tree cartoons, Sally talking to buildings, the scout cartoons, Snoopy writing, Snoopy's puppet shows, waiting in line for movie tickets, Joe Cool, and the summer camp storylines, off the top of my head -- it's easy to see what a rich strip Peanuts was.

* Johanna Draper Carlson writes a short post recasting recent arguments about serial comics versus trades purely in terms of the audience being served. In other words, if people prefer trades, shouldn't publishers consider giving them what they want rather than foster a system of artificial scarcity to maximize sales? It's a point of view to keep in mind.

* a representative of the Silver Bullet Comics shop in North Carolina surfaces to take issue with some of the news coverage regarding the shop. Basically, he feels the selling off of assets was just something that came from the normal course of doing business given the company's shift in priorities, not a seizure, and that orders made through the on-line services offered are still being filled. I imagine there will be some people in the comments giving those quotes the finger.

* this is just wrong.

* we clearly need another industry-wide superhero comics universe reboot, but this time only in superhero titles. 52 Aftermath: The Crime Bible: The Five Books of Blood is just ridiculous-sounding. There should be no superhero comic title that a child cannot ask their parent to pick up without having to introduce a mnemonic device.

* some new work from the very grateful Darryl Cunningham, at Forbidden Planet.

* as part of their plan to keep folks from buying them, PictureBox Inc. slipped a couple of worth volumes onto their site: Cold Heat Special Edition and Galactikrap #2.

* Robert Crumb, Matt Groening and Stan Lee all make a genius list; this guy remains unimpressed.
 
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