Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* there's always a chance I'm misreading a news story in France, but if I have this one right, the youngest son of Peyo is appearing on a reality show. He looks exactly like someone who should be appearing on a reality show.

* this should probably go in the "Bundled" column, but Fantagraphics posted a first look at Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit Vol. 3.

* in case you missed it, there was a bunch of Comic-Con related coverage in this Sunday's LA Times. I only gave it a read-through once on the commuter train from Claremont, but I was disappointed in that it seemed more a set of talking points than an actually article. The main talking point, of course, is the "Hollywoodization of Comic-Con," which I generally think is kind of a canard. It was a little bit sad, because I usually like the Times Hollywood coverage and I'm down with their comics coverage more often than not, too. I'm still waiting for that one writer to really grab that whole Hollywood side of Comic-Con by the throat and write the revelatory article. I don't even have a firm grasp as to how that side of the show operates, let alone the backstage stuff that seems to me like it could be fascinating.

* speaking of Comic-Con, here's six announcements the Robot6 guys would like to hear. I'd like to hear four of them. The other two? Eh.

* Geoff Grogan has announced a sale in order to try and replace a roof on his barn.

* here's a link that will take you to the recent Denis Kitchen talk with Charles Brownstein.

* Devlin Thompson has been sending in a ton of stuff lately, all of it good, all of it deserving better than this starred mention on a round-up: the Maud the Mule story; a photo of a model, Bob Kane, and art that Bob Kane likely did not make; two posts on the use of symbols for cursing in comics; and maybe the greatest painting I've ever seen, followed by the greatest letter.

* Mike Rhode would like you to know that comics and stamps have a longer history than you'd expect.

* Diana Tamblyn swears by this recent Jules Feiffer interview, although I'm only 80 percent sure this link she provided takes you there.

* finally, Douglas Wolk thinks out loud about digital comics and some of the nuances to the display space provided through that avenue of distribution.
 
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