Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Mike Lynch weighs in on a recent story whereby one of the cartoonists working with Platinum on a strip find themselves looking at someone else doing that strip for web publication. I haven't really commented on the story myself because I think it's just sort of obviously terrible in a way that seems really self-apparent. It's not solely a matter of people signing or not signing contracts that say certain things, although that's a huge part of it. At this point it's that such a contract exists at all, and that they specifically exploit economic inequities and the desire for newer talents to make it in the field.

* Not Comics: Marvel has a lead-in-their-toys problem.

* If you weren't sad that Disney Adventures shut down before, maybe you'll be upset to learn that this likely means a lot of planned Roger Langridge comics featuring the Muppets may not see the light of day beyond a Fozzie the Bear cartoon that found its way into the publication's last issue. Or maybe you won't, I don't know.

* Humble Stumble gets the NEA's special Christmas comic strip slot. I really like the idea of a special Christmas comic strip.

* Kathleen O'Brien at the Newark Star-Ledger, one of the very best and attentive newspaper writers when it comes to covering comics issues, unpacks the post-Lisa Moore's death Funky Winkerbean. Current strips deal with the direct aftermath of Moore's passing through her husband dealing with it at some future point in therapy. On October 23, a "10 Years Later" storyline will kick off and the label at least will stay until the end of the year. What's fascinating about the 10 Year Later storyline -- and O'Brien's article indicates it may not be permanent, although everything we've heard up until now suggests a new status quo -- is that this puts the topical strip (the Iraq War, for one) into the future.

* Tripwire may follow up this year's comeback glossy with three magazines, two tied into popular cross-media properties.

* I liked the mostly Adrian Tomine-related photos on the Drawn and Quarterly blog (scroll down). You can read photo subject Anne Ishii's take on the event here.

* Here's a potential campus cartoons controversy too obtuse for me to even understand what it's about. However, if it's about Joe Paterno, let me once again state that it's totally eerie how much the football legend looks like Emil Gargunza.

* Speaking of Funky Winkerbean, as I did a few items back, does his coloring look pretty great or what? It's not anything that would blow you away, but there's a lot in the way of muted colors and gradations that I'm not used to seeing in the color versions of black and white dailies. Most of the coloring on King Features dailies was at one time done at the production facility rather than by the cartoonists -- even though the production people used the Sundays as a guide, the effect was sometimes more colorized than colored, if you know what I mean. This looks quite close to the Sundays.

* Ammar Abboud makes a couple of notes about recent posts here concerning the passing of Serge de Beketch and Les Humanoides Associes.
 
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