* Christopher Allen takes the time to think his way through retailer Brian Hibbs's opinions, which is more than Hibbs usually does. Hibbs is a prominent retailer and longtime writer-about-retailing, but his blinkered and often provincial views (believe it or not, the Direct Market is just one province in the United States of Comics) frequently grate on me like parmesan cheese.
* I don't care about Kickstarter one way or the other. My eyes glaze over when I read anything about it, but I don't begrudge people trying to get their comics published that way. (Although I do think if your comics are good enough and you shop them around, there's enough of a diversity of publishers that almost any work of quality should be able to find a home somewhere, even with the economy in a shambles it may never recover from.) All that having been said, Dan Nadel's got some opinions about Kickstarter and comics and poorly written press releases. Now, poorly written press releases? Those REALLY annoy me.
* At A Criminal Blog, Bubba considers what the Eisner win for Criminal: Last of the Innocent might mean for Brubaker and Phillips in the future.
* Are you some kind of joker? You're fired.
* Video: Fake Stan Lee vs. Comicon 2012. This made me laugh out loud at about the 42 second point; I think even Jack Kirby would have laughed at that line. Plus, the guy's vocal impression is priceless.
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