Random Comics News Story Update

* for a long and funny backstage-on-the-comics-page post, you can't really do better than this longish one from Stephan Pastis about Cathy Guisewite.

* David Brothers takes up where Tucker Stone left off in a roundtable devoted to the "Panther's Rage" storyline in the 1970s Jungle Action comic book.

* Scott Cederlund compares and contrasts the Scott Pilgrim series with Love and Rockets.

* not comics: the box office news on the first weekend of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is in. I don't know anything about Hollywood box office returns and I no longer have the energy like so many seem to have to pretend that I do. It seems safe to say that the movie didn't hit the way its makers and studio had hoped right out of the gate, and that no one really knows the reason why or this kind of thing wouldn't happen. I had a brief discussion about SP with a couple of more Hollywood-oriented people when I was in Southern California. As it turned out they had just seen the move. One of them liked the film but thought that it might have some trouble scoring decent box office because it was aimed at a young adult audience that had yet to embrace a film and make it their own in that way. "This summer?" I asked. "Ever," said my pal.

* not comics: I do always get a little sad with how much more invested comics fans are with the box office of movies based on comics than they are with invigorating a system that might sell more comics. I'm additionally depressed by the entire industry's nerd-pressed-against-the-glass fixation with movie success over publishing success. Anyone who has anything invested beyond curiosity in the box-office success of a film that doesn't feature a family member, a friend, or themselves needs to take a long walk around the block; those that like to crow about someone other persons' perceived setbacks can keep walking. I felt the strutting after Dark Knight came out to boffo box office equally silly and largely irrelevant to comics in the long run, too.

* vote early, vote often, vote Inkwells.

* writer Mark Evanier's serious, somber, sober advice on issues concerning freelance work for comics, with the added bonus that they've already been used as direct pieces of one-to-one advice.

* finally, audio from television interviews done at the 1974 Comic-Con? Yes, indeed.
 
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