Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* NBM's Papercutz line has apparently acquired the Classics Illustrated library, both the material published 40-50 years ago and the book published by First Comics during their last few years of existence. They have announced on project from this group of material, Rick Geary's adaptation of Great Expectations, but future publications looks like they will depend on the company's ability to get a publishable version of each book in-house.

* Danish Cartoons Do-Over: The Musical.

* This interview with Adrian Tomine is a great enough read to snatch it out of the quick hits section and put it here.

* Gary Tyrrell features an extended look at the ZudaComics.com contract with a lengthy summary article. It's a good piece. He avoids getting into the legalities of it and simply argues from the perspective of what a standard DIY approach to a webcomic offers and what the Zuda approach to the same webcomic offers. I believe I agree with Tyrrell's summation, with the added emphasis that Zuda has no track record. That's a very important additional grain of salt with which to take their overture. It's one thing to offer a deal with certain contractual limitations after you have a proven track record of getting stuff over with an audience, and another thing to hand a certain amount of control over to a company with no displayed ability to do what it promises in terms of putting the project in front of people. Now, this could change really quickly, and they could come out gangbusters, but until then I think you have to look at the contracts differently.

As always, the one thing that all the critics and Zuda itself can agree on is that you should hire a lawyer the second you seriously begin to consider submitting something. Hire a lawyer if you see z-u-d-a in your alphabet soup, for pity's sake. And then listen to that lawyer. Ask them every question you can.

* Here's an editorial in the Hartford Courant that raises an eyebrow at the extent of controversy surrounding the Guilford Incident by which a teacher resigned after giving a high school student a copy of Eightball #22, and notes how much of that is driven by our culture's specific reaction to visual art.

* Here's a nice summary article on the various issues surrounding Tom Batiuk's controversial cancer storyline in Funky Winkerbean.
 
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