* Did you know that Phoebe Gloeckner is blogging again? She is. Did you expect it to be sad? It is.

* CBR’s Alex Dueben speaks with Ross Campbell, creator of the weird, wonderful Wet Moon and Water Baby. Campbell is a really unique artist in comics right now and hearing about his mental process is pretty fascinating. There’s a great bit where he reveals his Minx effort, Water Baby, was originally planned to have a raunchier story but less sexy visuals:

Actually, looking back on the artwork just now, I still really like it, but I think I went a little overboard on Brody’s breasts. Even though Louisa’s are even bigger, Brody’s particularly seem overly prominent, not specifically because of their size since obviously tons of girls have these proportions and they’re fine and normal, but just the manner in which I drew them. Maybe it’s just Brody’s nipples, which always seem to be pushing into her shirts (I guess I was trying to show that Brody never wears a bra, too), I don’t know. Maybe if I could go back and fix up all the nipple protrusion it would be perfect. [laughs]

He also reveals that Tokyopop is resolutely fucking him out of being able to do anything further with his excellent goth-zombie graphic novel The Abandoned, which is a crime. (Via Dirk Deppey.)

* Chris Mautner speaks with Ivan Brunetti about his two-volume Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories. Once again, we see that anthologies of this sort eschew good superhero comics not out of choice, but out of necessity, courtesy of those comics’ publishers:

Then there were things that were prohibitively expensive and just impossible to track down the rights on. It’s really hard to get a hold of Marvel Comics. I would have loved to have stuff by Jack Kirby in there. You can’t even find who to contact to get those rights, plus they would have been so expensive. The recent Best American Comics —

Q: — wanted to get in Paul Pope —

A: Yeah and DC wouldn’t even want it reprinted. There were those kinds of issues to consider.

Another crime.

* Fangoria speaks with World War Z author Max Brooks about the coming film adaptation, directed by Quantum of Solace‘s Marc Forster and written by Spider-Man: The Other‘s J. Michael Straczynski.

Brooks is also pleased with the latest WORLD WAR Z script draft by J. Michael Straczynski, whom some predict will win an Oscar nomination for his screenplay to the Clint Eastwood film CHANGELING. The scripter managed to distill Brooks’ wide-ranging collection of journal entries, interviews and anecdotes detailing the ultimate battle between man and zombie into a cohesive screenplay. “I’m thrilled that the man who created BABYLON 5 is working on this movie,” Brooks said. “I can’t give it away, but Straczynski found a way to tie it all together. The last draft I read was amazing.”

Another crime?

* David Bordwell sings the praises of that golden age of edgy Hollywood filmmaking…the ’80s?

* Look! I’m a highlight!

That’s from an SPX retrospective strip by Dustin Harbin, who sure can draw. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)

* Frequently you hear comics people talk about DC’s iconic heroes. If I made a list in my head of who those are, it would map exactly to this drawing:

From a DC Comics color guide, drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. (Via JK Parkin.)

* A Ghostface Killah Greatest Hits featuring a song called “Ghostface Christmas”? Oh, indeed.

* Quote of the day:

‘Tis the season to be crazy!

–Some crazy lady on the train to work this morning. Unfortunately, being actually crazy, she didn’t know to quit while she was ahead, and used the line (by which I mean shouted it to no one in particular) twice. So now it’s unable hang in the collective memory of her fellow passengers as a singular, spontaneous flash of shamanic-savant brilliance the way I’m sure we’d all prefer it to.

* Finally (via Whitney Matheson, Chinese Fucking Democracy.

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