Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* a short post at ActuaBD.com indicates that the huge publishing concern MediaParticipations and the small journalism start-up MediaPart settled their legal tussle over whether or not the latter could be confused with the former when MediaPart agreed to change their name to Mediapart.

* in my haste to get my posts down yesterday, I mis-identified the crime writer and alt-weekly editor turned Marvel comics writer Duane Swierczynski as another person with a much smaller and easier to spell name. To make up for it, here's an interview with the writer.

* just the other day I was wondering out loud why, with all the alt-comics personalities becoming new parents, there weren't more comics- or illustration-related alphabet primers in the spirit of Tony Fitzpatrick's wonderful Max and Gaby's Alphabet. And then, lo and behold, this book shows up. I'm now wondering out loud why I never win the lottery, but I would also love to see a few more books of this type.

* here's something that you don't see very often: one of those standard home-tour articles, but with a great deal of information about how the owner stores his comic books.

* go here for a fairly thorough nostalgia-driven article on the Golden Picture Story Book comics released by Western in the early 1960s. This was an oversized book, maybe the first one, in a format that Marvel and DC would exploit a decade and a half later.

* yesterday was the day when San Diego's Comic-Con International traditionally releases to the public a few available hotel rooms at a discounted price for their big mid-summer show. As the number of people attending has swelled in the last few years, and a lot of companies with deep pockets now attend that are willing and able to sweep in and seize blocs of rooms up to a year beforehand, this last chance for rooms under $200 has become something of a madhouse for comics folk who could really make use of any discount for the somewhat expensive to attend summer convention. The result is a lot of posts about reservation "horror stories," like this one. Heidi MacDonald reports on yesterday's reservation crush and makes a few nice points that economic data about the con's effect on the San Diego economy seems woefully underplayed.

* here's the official press release about Comic World News shutting down.
 
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