Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* the writer David Welsh ends his three-year (!) run with "Flipped" at Comic World News with a long review of Osamu Tezuka's MW. According to a post at Welsh's site, Comic World News is calling it quits in the near future.

* here's one to bookmark: a primer on comics legal issues, focused on copyright/ownership and the current Superman lawsuit scheduled for trial in May.

* this isn't permalinked, but Jim Kingman has an article up on remembering the KISS comic books and KISS music in general. The point about certain kinds of music to which you listened while reading certain comics bringing back memories of those comics is something a lot of comics readers have in common, I think. Plus it gives me an excuse to run a thumbnail of their Marvel Super Special comic, featuring one of the top ten all-time tag lines (in yellow): "printed in real KISS blood."

* if I'm following this correctly, Media-Participations, the company that owns the companies Dargaud, Dupuis, Le Lombard, and Kana, has apparently sued an on-line journalistic start-up called Mediapart for the obvious reason: its name. I couldn't judge the merits of this dispute if it were taking place in Des Moines, let alone France, but I thought it was worth noting.

* this is the kind of thing that may only interest me, but I was looking at the Wizard web site just now, and their first comics-related story is the 13th story down.

* speaking of Wizard, their former Online Editor/Content Manager/undeserving staff purge victim Rick Marshall has landed at ComicMix. I think this was sent out in a press release I didn't get.

* the cartoonist and writer Mike Lynch notes that nominations for the National Cartoonist Society's divisional awards is now open, and open to everyone in terms of submitting their own work or someone else's. These are sometime called the Reuben divisional awards after the ceremony's big honor, open only to NCS members.

* this interview basically functions as a kind of Michael Leunig 101, if you're unfamiliar with the cartoonist. Also, it's hilarious to me that there's actually an honor in Australia that names people national treasures.

* your 2007 Golden Loeb award winners.

* I have always loved the Comic-Con International printed update digests; that publication will now become a more formal, still free magazine -- .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
 
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