Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* I don't really follow mainstream American comic books, but this list of upcoming projects for the writer Matt Fraction notes that his post-Civil War Marvel title The Order will end at issue #10. I think that's the one that was going to revive Marvel's Champions name but someone had registered it as a comics title under Marvel's nose. It's also another failed attempt to set a superhero team in one of those worlds' equivalent of Los Angeles, which may interest only me.

* this interview with Jeff Smith about his forthcoming RASL sets some general parameters for the cartoonist's first indy comics project since Bone: 250 pages or so, probably between two and three years worth of serial publication.

* the cartoonist Jeff Bacon has received the Surface Navy Association's highest honor for "devotion to the Navy." Bacon draws strips for Navy Times and Marine Times and is a blogger for NavyTimes.com.

* Joe Williams wrote in to note that the recently canceled They'll Do It Every Time, to end February 2, reported to have 100 clients, may have some or all of them as part of what sounds like from his description the classic NEA package where a number of strips and panels and related features are put together and targeted to smaller newspapers. If true, that would make it less surprising from a financial standpoint for the panel to end.

* if you like industry stories about cartoonists and critics griping at each other, you could do worse than to use google or something equivalent to rough-translate this odd piece at ActuaBD.com.

* there's a certain sophistication and thoroughness that keeps this piece from being a bad article, but I have to say that it's weird reading an article about female comics readership where manga is the 11th graph below Wonder Woman, Minx and the Smurfs. One of the odder things in general about the shape of modern comics is a viewpoint that processes every comics concept through the agents of the American mainstream comic book industry, sometimes when it's applicable, sometimes when it's not.

* ICv2.com and the writer and retailer Chris Butcher each take a look at ADV's successor manga to Newtype USA, called PiQ.

* widespread link of the moment: How To Get a Book Deal Without an Agent.
 
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