Well, it's Friday and perhaps Tim is wrapping up his vacation in an undisclosed comics-free location. Me, I'm editing two enormo interviews for this site, both of which I think you'll be very excited about. And so, friends, enjoy these links today, catch up one the avalanche content you may have missed this last week or so (like Moynihan, Deitch, Piskor, Fischer, McCulloch, Metaphrog, Ryan, Latour) and dig the links below.
Charles Brownstein takes us through what the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is and does. (via)
Heidi MacDonald points out that longtime indie distro stalwart Tony Shenton is one of the very the last indie distributors standing, now that the brief-lived Haven Distribution has closed. Tom Spurgeon has some good analytical thoughts on the matter. Tony has been hugely supportive of me for over a decade now. He really is one of a kind. Stores: Give this man some love. He's IT.
Jeff Newelt has posted a killer list of his best comics for the last (Jewish) year, my own precious 1-800-MICE among them, but more importantly to you, dear reader, he highlights some overlooked gems, like Leslie Stein's hilarious, beautifully drawn, and beloved-by-TCJ Eye of the Majestic Creature, TCJ-contributor Michael Fiffe's Zegas, and the still resounding tome from Brecht Evens, Wrong Place.
Well, as usual, D&Q's Tom Devlin had more fun at a show than I did (but that's only because he LOVES comics in a way I might refer to as "unmanly"), and then rubs my face in it with a funny APE report in which he captures my grimacing vissage. Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds posted a more subdued rundown, remembering those he missed, and me, I'll probably get to mine sometime next year. Sigh.
Oh man, there's an animated version of Batman: Year One that looks like they turned Miller and Mazzucchelli's work into a storyboard and then grafted the ugliest possible animation and voices on top of it. Score another one for the great minds at Warners. (via FS)
And here's an interview with cartoonist Gabby Schulz over at Fully Engaged Feminism.
Finally, I think this is new: An easy-to-use "Is it still under copyright" digital finder. Quick, start your own "archival" publishing company!
