* The DC Entertainment restructuring story from yesterday continues to develop–internally as well as externally, I might add. For now, here’s Kiel Phegley talking to Dan Didio and Jim Lee about the moves, and Kevin Melrose with a roundup of the developments and reaction to them, the most helpful such post I’ve seen so far. The big question today is the provenance of the LA Times’ much-quoted figure of 20% layoffs for the company, a figure that didn’t, uh, figure into any of the other press the company heads did yesterday.
* The lineup for the second annual Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest has been announced, and it’s a killer, including ultra-rare East Coast appearances by Jordan Crane and Johnny Ryan. Paul Pope’s joining the fold this year too. Plus, dig the Anders Nilsen poster.
* Knockout installment of Brian Chippendale’s Puke Force today. You definitely wanna click the link to see this thing at full size.
* I wonder what Kevin Huizenga’s Glenn Ganges is up to here. Smells like adventure to me!
* Wow, Theo Ellsworth makes a great album-cover artist. This Flying Lotus cover he did is on some serious King Crimson/Gentle Giant shit.
* Jeet Heer on Douglas Wolk on comics. Go, read.
* And while you’re there, check out the voluminous comment thread for Frank Santoro’s post on SPX and the slow death of the minicomic. Frank’s taking no prisoners, and there are tons of compelling responses from Dan Nadel, Rob Clough, Brian Chippendale, MK Reed, James Kochalka, Tom Spurgeon, Matt Seneca, Jason Overby, and on and on.
* Fascinating David Bordwell Post of the Week: Bordwell on the evolution of the idea of classical Hollywood cinema as a school of filmmaking.
while it might seem ironic for me to ask( given that whole SPX-post broohaha)–how did the Brooklyn show sell out the tables so fast? I think I checked in on the site as recently as a week or two ago and info was still yet to come!
I dunno–did you ask Gabe or Dan about it?