Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* for those of you in a pool, it looks like the date of the first American student to be suspended for keeping a pseudo-Death Note notebook where he or she wrote the name of classmates into it was November 21. At least if I'm not forgetting someone. You can't have people expressing their wishes that other people with whom they're in a community be dead, although I imagine there's some sympathy for a kid that alienated, too. Although to his credit, he probably knows how to spell "Japanese".

* I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty certain this is the first piece of coverage resulting from ComicsPRO hiring Amanda Fisher as its Communication Coordinator. I wouldn't be surprised if this were to become a pretty common article template.

* the Guardian selects the best of the comics blogosphere.

* another article in the Guardian talks about Frank Miller as the ideal for a comics artist able at this point to move into film with his vision intact, but not before its headline and general premise cast comics as Entertainment Industry Slumsville, USA.

* this editorial by Ed Williams talking about posthumous events tied into the work and life of the late Doug Marlette shows just how big a hole can be left in a community and region when someone like that passes.

* since I'm no longer 13, I've stopped caring where any and all forms of comics are on the coolness scale, although I suppose the triggering of a backlash mechanism that hits early adopters and long-time fans was to be expected.

* it's been really tough to figure out how editorial cartoons have been treated in the recent political crisis in Pakistan. It's sounds through suggestions in articles like these like they're an important part of a chaotic news landscape, although most of the international press attention has been focused on decamped broadcast journalists.
 
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