Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* a comics shop in Michigan was apparently robbed by two armed suspects; I can't imagine how much it would suck to be the person behind the counter when that happened.
* Monte Schulz continues to make the family case against Schulz and Peanuts. NPR's coverage of the book is here.
* here's a sort-of follow-up to last year's Kuang Biao story, where a newspaper cartoonist was suspended for drawing President Ju Hintao weeping in sympathetic fashion, something that alarmed a lot of folks because of the benign nature of the drawing: two artists make less than benign art about their country's leadership. And while their studio was closed and they're under guard, they seem happy to note that they haven't been shot.
* with a second-week surge for two-thirds of barrage #2 (volumes 19-21) in Viz's Naruto push this Fall, and all three books placing well on the USA Today Top 150 bookstore list, I'd say it's going better than the cynical takes on it had suggested it might. The key is how this plays out when the push stops in the new year, but so far, so good.
