Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the US House of Representatives has apparently buttressed recent over-encompassing anti-child porn initiative made law with legislation that would call on Internet providers to turn in users that cross this new, poorly conceived line.

* the writer and manga columnist David P. Welsh backs me up on Books-a-Million's place in the great mass of land between the coasts, or at least in his corner of that vast space, and comments generally on a complaint about a book being shelved either in or near a section for children that might not have been smartly placed in that location. Dirk Deppey says: not that adult a book.

* not comics: a bookstore inside a church has won an architectural interiors prize.

* the cartoonist Craig Thompson speaks about his Grammy nomination for his work on the packaging of Menomena's CD Friend and Foe.

* Jeet Heer has a nice post up about John Updike and comics.

* the writer and critic Kevin Church points out that some of the YALSA nominees have less than sterling critical pedigrees, and that at least one features Spider-Man's incidental nudity and his killer radioactive semen.

* Asok, we hardly knew ye.

* the folks at Marvel would like you to pay a second round of attention to their Dark Tower hardcover hitting the #1 slot on the Bookscan charts, which at least should end all discussion of whether or not the project was worth doing without Stephen King being more heavily involved.

* the ombudsman at the Washington Post discusses the Barack Obama article that led to Tom Toles creating an editorial cartoon critical of his own paper.

* finally, the New York Anime Festival held over the weekend at the Jacob Javitz center looks to have been a modest success. Passing for big news is word that Del Rey and Marvel will work together on a four-book deal featuring Marvel characters, apparently to be two two-volume Wolverine series. I found this breakdown of the forthcoming Yen Press manga magazine to be the most interesting announcement-type publishing news, although it could be that everyone that follow manga more closely already knew about it. Heidi MacDonald has the best pictures.
 
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