Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the cartoonists Ted Rall and Matt Bors are going after Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart for crossing the WGA picket line, but they want you to feel as bad as possible about their cartoons, so they've announced their intentions in a press release.

* from deep in Amish country comes news that the Lancaster, Pennsylvania location of Captain Blue Hen Comics has moved from normal operations into a kind of periodic opening for sales phase, one supposes to burn through as much stock as possible before closing (Larry's on Devon in Chicago enjoyed a similar half-life before it shut its doors).

One of the few places to buy comics in Lancaster in the 1990s, Captain Blue Hen was famous in my family for 1) having a deeply stocked ten cent room, and 2) having the scariest looking front facade of any comic shop in history. Captain Blue Hen was in the basement of a church, and its front door to the side and back of the main building barely announced its existence, going for a the kind of three steps down into a shady front stoop and perhaps into a lurking serial killer's hands feel that you used to see in TV movies starring Andy Griffith or Eric Baden. CR pal Chris Mautner says that the look and ambiance of the 10-cent room has overtaken the entire store for its last throes phase, so fun times for all. Goodbye, Captain Blue Hen. I never felt braver to enter a comics shop.

* the great Dave Astor reports that the Christian Science Monitor has narrowed down its replacement list for Clay Bennett to 12 candidates. Bennett leaving CSM to join the staff of the Times Free Press in Chattanooga was one of the surprise moves of the last year. The article notes that staff cartoonist Brian Barling has been providing the paper with cartoons in the interim, buttressing the paper's use of syndicated cartoonists.

pictured: one of a couple hundred comics I bought at Captain Blue Hen's infamous 10-cent room
 
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