Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the words you've been waiting for all your life and didn't even know it: K. Thor Jensen interviews Deepak Chopra.

* Ed Piskor sent along a couple of fascinating posts in the last week worth sharing. Here's a much linked-to piece about comics action where the cause and result take place withing a single panel and much less-traveled one about Dick Tracy: The Space Years.

* if I'm understanding the PR and PR-driven news postings correctly, Dirk Wood has joined IDW in a newly-christened marketing position and AnnaMaria White has received a promotion. Congratulations to both.

* Heidi MacDonald is doing her yearly round-up of pre-CCI PR at The Beat.

* Rich Johnston suggests that there were tweaks to a reprinted Arthur Suydam comic that cloud sexual orientation issues in a way unflattering to the tweakers.

* not comics: two of the remaining comics films of interest coming out in the months ahead are European in origin: Luc Besson's adaptation of the Adele Blanc-Sec books and Stephen Frears' take on Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe. Here are two articles about the latter I have yet to read.

* I can't imagine anything more generally useful than the occasional snapshot of comics in the Philippines provided by Gerry Alanguilan.

* finally, from the depths of my recovered e-mail comes some buried treasure:

1) an interview with the artist Dan McDaid.
2) a note about Marvel's move in the 1950s to ride out the wave of anti-comic book sentiment.
3) a link to the Copenhagen comics festival site where you can read the festival's thank you and perhaps figure out how to score the boss Chris Ware poster they used to promote the show.
4) a report from Matthias Wivel about that same show.
5) an initial post about Ryan Claytor's forthcoming tour, individual dates for which I'm going to put up on the site after posting this note.
6) an interview at Graphic Novel Reporter with Matthew Dembicki and Michael Thompson.
7) an advance item that's probably not so advance anymore on Hive #4.
8) that Vince Colletta HOF historical curiosity letter that everyone else gave to you immediately but I have let age like fine wine.
9) a Michel Fiffe post on some Gary Panter album art.
10) a profile of Jules Feiffer by John Seven.
11) a review of the latest Kim Deitch from the same source.
12) a pair of reviews for Dave Lapp's Children Of The Atom.
13) a contest/game offering by a site in conjunction with Comic-Con International, I think for those who aren't going.
14) photos of creepy semi-related-to-Marvel cakes.
15) a preview of the new Tripwire, hearty survivors of recent comic book industry history.

I'd say wait until next time for this lively CR feature, but I'm horribly embarrassed to have all this material hidden in my e-mail and am desperately hoping there won't be a next time. To that end, I'd like to mention I switched the base account for my primary tomatcomicsrepoterdotcom e-mail address from tomspurgeon010atmsndotcom to comicsreporterathotmaildotcom -- just in case you were using the MSN address for some strange reason. My apologies to all concerned for the past transgressions and future snafus.
 
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