Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Ralph Steadman is among those cartoonists having work auctioned for the benefit of food-related charities.

* free manga is being supplied to some of the families dislocated by Southern California wildfires.

* this image looks like an honest-to-god William Messner-Loebs comic, but I can't get the reader on ComicMix to work this morning. I'm sure they'll send me a "it's working now" or "you're an idiot" note after I've shut down the computer for the day. Anyway, if I had a bigger image to spotlight new work from a significant creator who's been in troubled circumstances for years now, I would make this its own post, but since I don't, I'm putting it over in the hopes that you'll try the link until it works.

* Steven Grant kind of loses me when he declares

"Ultimately there's no publisher in America today predicated on the idea of letting talented creators go their own way, because no publisher has a coherent plan for capitalizing on that, and that goes for both indie and mainstream."

I'd have to see a stronger argument than he makes that companies like Drawn and Quarterly and PictureBox aren't doing exactly that, letting talented creators go their own way. Even if the alt-companies can be portrayed as too rigid in their preferred aesthetics to qualify as allowing creators to go their own way, Fantagraphics has one that at least encompasses Castle Waiting and Barry Windsor-Smith all the way to Kim Deitch and a forthcoming anthology of abstract comics. I guess you could say that still doesn't qualify, but I think the differences are way more important than the similarities. And what about Image? I can't imagine that Steven Grant's anonymous creator with superheroes in their heart couldn't find an amenable avenue towards doing superheroes there. It's all very confusing.

* Jeremy Love does a victory lap after being the first Zudacomics.com instant winner, which means his Bayou gets a contract without having to be voted on by the masses. Apparently, he was one of the cartoonists contacted and encouraged to pitch when DC's webcomics initiative was still in development.

* this sounds pretty cool were it to happen.

* Darryl Cunningham is thrilled, shocked and embarrassed by the donations that have come in to help alleviate a life-crippling situation. He also got gigs out of it. I hope that he continues to get better.

* Alan Gardner notes that Editor & Publisher's Dave Astor has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Schulz and Peanuts. Astor's one of the more astute reporters and editors out there paying attention, so he might bring a perspective into the affair we haven't heard yet.
 
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