Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Calvin Reid of PWCW gets Pantheon to open up about its 2008 plans, which includes information on a few long-rumored projects, not quite all the way nailed down until now: the expanded Art Spiegelman Breakdowns that includes a new autobiographical sequence some segments of which are currently being serialized in the New Yorker and Virginia Quarterly Review; David Mazzucchelli's return to comics with the graphic novel Asterios Polyp; and that travel comic with Phoebe Gloeckner's Mexico stuff in it from actress Mia Kirshner. The planned David Heatley book at St. Martin's moves over to Pantheon, too, which is something I hadn't heard.

* ICv2.com reports that the Dabel Brothers, specialists in bringing genre author works into comics form, have signed a book trade distribution deal with Del Rey.

* one of the better comic strip anecdotes I've ever read is up on Scott Dunbier's blog, where a teenaged Michael Moorcock was writing his own captions for the Tarzan strip so as not to have to use work from an artist he didn't like.

* speaking of anecdotes, here's one from Eric Reynolds about Zippy the Pinhead.

* Khalil Bendib launches his presidential campaign.

* Marc -Oliver Frisch writes in response to criticisms we linked to here by comics author Brian Wood about sales estimates and reports on same.

* this blogger compares North American and Japanese approaches to the inevitability of on-line dissemination.

* the Christian Science Monitor says goodbye to longtime cartoonist Clay Bennett on his last day in concise fashion; although one supposes a paper's not going to devote a ton of space to someone leaving for another job.

* given the implications of the Lesley Molseed conviction and a subsequent incident which mirrored the more famous murder, police will apparently now check for former comics retailer Ronald Castree's involvement in unsolved cases of a similar type.
 
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