February 28, 2013
Let The Year Of Gilbert Hernandez Begin
There's
a nice piece up over at The Advocate about Gilbert Hernandez on the publication of his
Julio's Day, which I suspect -- suspect and
hope -- will kick off a lengthy period of appreciation for one of the great, prolific cartoonists of our time. I'm told that
Julio's Day reads astonishingly well now that it's been collected, and I can attest to the quality of Hernandez's forthcoming book from Drawn and Quarterly,
Marble Season. I think we're supposed to see a collection of
New Tales Of Old Palomar -- which I'm told will be called
The Children Of Palomar -- and that work really shows off the cartoonist's under-appreciated power as an image-maker. I can't imagine a whole lot of better things for comics than if the Hernandez Brothers build on their 30-year anniversary momentum and stay relevant in a way their work demands.
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Go, Look: And The Wind Blows
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Assembled, Zipped, Transferred And Downloaded: News From Digital
By Tom Spurgeon
* IDW and Monkeybrain
will team up to release some of the digital-forward titles in print form. My understanding is that this is non-exclusive and basically is a deal that the companies have taken to those creators and that there may well be other publishers that do print comics that have run on that site. At any rate, print publication is an important thing for a lot of digital efforts, and it should be interesting to see how this effort unfolds.
* just this morning -- or at least in the last 48 hours -- iVerse
announced a partnership with Viz Media focused on library patrons. I'm not all the way certain how that works, in that I'm not certain of the level of desire for that material from people that use libraries. Libraries are generally interested in the Viz material, that's for sure.
* the episodes for
Strip Search, the reality-style programming from the
Penny Arcade people,
have begun their roll-out.
* I love
this headline from Johanna Draper Carlson about inducements for participation at the Kodansha site.
* finally,
here's more from
Robot 6 on Chris Onstad's hopes and plans for an
Achewood cartoon.
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In East Lansing, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In New York, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In San Francisco, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Seattle, I’d Go To This
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OTBP/Not Comics: Science Fiction
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
*
all eyes on Seattle.
* Richard Bruton on
I Don't Like My Hair Neat. Jason Thompson on
Chi's Sweet Home.
* I think it's good to poke and prod at characters and ask questions about how they're portrayed, as in
this piece on the backwards-looking elements in different versions of Wonder Woman. I'm not sure that it's anything more than a sign of how certain characters work, but I would imagine that if you're into those kinds of comics it's a question worth pursuing.
* Michael Cavna
announces the winner of a recent caption content.
* Steven Heller talks to
Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen.
* finally, J. Caleb Mozzocco
walks readers through the latest iteration of the
Guardians Of The Galaxy concept, which will be a point of emphasis for Marvel as a movie version roars to life. Hannah Means-Shannon
looks at one of the new comics works that will put Marvel in that space-opera place more firmly, although they've set up the infrastructure for that kind of thing in recent years.
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Happy 36th Birthday, Benjamin Marra!
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Happy 61st Birthday, Joyce Brabner!
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