Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* according to this article, authorities in the Guangzhou province of China plan on pouring $100 million into developing local comics and animation industries over the next four years. This will include more cooperation with similar Hong Kong businesses, money targeted towards developing new talent and recognizing/rewarding talent in general, and what sounds like some infrastructure development aimed at housing businesses.

* here's a short essay that puts the Ezra Levant portion of the Danish Cartoons hangover into a Canadian perspective.

* Khalil Bendib is still running for president.

* the short but voluminous burst of writing on the subject of convention pre-sales and the Direct Market is now definitely on the wane, but I wanted to point out a few takes worth looking at all for themselves: Steven Grant, longtime writer and comics commentator, Matthew Maxwell, a self-publisher about to start selling his first book, and Joe Gordon on the highly useful Forbidden Planet blog.

* a few readers have sent in a link to this visual language conference, for which Scott McCloud will serve as one of the facilitators. I'm not sure exactly what's going on there, but it looks like fun.

* this isn't comics, but I already find myself similarly nostalgic for the look and feel of 1970s/1980s comic book shops. It's insane, I know.

* Matthias Wivel points out that Angouleme brings to the surface various disagreements and minor feuds between members of the European comics community, and then analyzes two such newborn flare-ups: an accusation that a few successful cartoonists act as a Eurocomics mafia, and a flap that started, sort-of, with accusations of misappropriation of Joann Sfar art.
 
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