Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* this kind of thing sometimes rubs me the wrong way, but I rather liked the unabashed "hooray for our guy" nature of this cartoonist profile.

* news reports from Garry Trudeau's appearance last night in White River Junction, Vermont on behalf of the Center for Cartoon Studies can be found here, here and here.

* Tom Batiuk's press and publicity tour continues. Man, that site's photographer is tall.

* NBM has put up what I'm guessing will be an American-language version of Lewis Trondheim's Les Petits Riens blog, in anticipation of their publication of work from same. The French-language version has been around for a while now and is one of the best comics out there, period, I think. I wish NBM had more closely mirrored the immaculate look of the French version.

* Chip Kidd, deejay.

* the relationship between government officials and journalists in South Africa recently became a lot uglier; whether this eventually has an impact on the cartoonist Zapiro, who up to now has only been sued by an ex-government official, remains to be seen.

* "This book is a complete honeybee package..." I've already forgotten what that article is about, but I sure hope that someday I make something that can be described as "a completely honeybee package."

* I'd seen this mentioned before, but I can't remember that I'd heard Carol Burnett talk about her desire as a child to become a cartoonist. I'm not sure why it intrigues me, either, except that maybe as a performer she's on the popular edge of a kind of humor that didn't really get over in newspaper strips in the 1950s and 1960s, except arguably through Parker and Hart.
 
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