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* Buenaventura Press is now Pigeon Press. I think. Still, new Lisa Hanawalt, new Matt Furie!
* I kept forgetting to point out the comment thread on my post discussing Brian Michael Bendis’s comments regarding journalism and writing for free. Brigid Alverson, Laura Hudson, Heidi MacDonald, Tom Spurgeon, Dirk Deppey, Noah Berlatsky, J. Caleb Mozzocco, Abhay Khosla, Johanna Draper Carlson, Marc-Oliver Frisch, Alex Dueben, and Kevin Huxford are among the comics crit/journo types who weigh in.
* Digging the Craig Thompson vibe of Nick Bertozzi’s cover for his upcoming Lewis & Clark book for First Second.
* The good news: AdHouse is releasing a collection of Josh Cotter’s genuinely great, little-seen Send Help comic strips for the Kansas City Star, titled Barbra in the Sky with Neil Diamonds. The bad news: It’s a limited edition of 99 copies debuting at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest.
* Speaking of Cotter, this drawing of what looks like some horrible Transformers disaster is the kind of thing you could stare at for minutes on end.
* Really awful news: Sally Menke, Quentin Tarantino’s frequent editor, died a heat-related death while hiking with her dog in Los Angeles yesterday. I don’t know what it says about me that I raced through the article to see if the dog was okay, but I did. There’s an update on that score that I can’t think about too hard or I’ll cry here on the train. Anyway she was a real talent, that’s for sure.
* Here’s the trailer for the Coen Brothers’ remake of True Grit. I’ll be there. (Via Spinoff.)
* New Zealand Actors Equity appears to have joined Australia’s MEAA in advising actors not to sign on with The Hobbit until some kind of settlement has been reached, or something, this shit is totally baffling to me. The studios continue to make noise about shooting the movies elsewhere.
* Robert Kirkman says all of his comics are going to have same-day digital/print releases soon. Considering that The Walking Dead and to a slightly lesser extent Invincible are arguably the two sales success stories of comics over the past decade–they increase in sales nearly every month, something that is totally unique in all of comics–I’m really curious to see how this decision affects that.
* Trent Reznor’s Year Zero HBO miniseries is still a going concern. That’s nice. (Via Sean Belcher.)
* Greg McLean is apparently making a sequel to Wolf Creek. That’s a toughie, that movie.
* This Matt Zoller Seitz/Ian Grey debate over whether or not GoodFellas is overrated features some Breitbart-expose-of-Shirley-Sherrod-level mischaracterizations of the movie by Grey, but hey, Seitz on GoodFellas, you don’t wanna miss that. Also, even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day: Grey’s right, Casino is even better.
* Spiffy Daredevil Black and White art from David Aja.
* I don’t know why the heck something called the Wah Tung Matchbook Company made a bunch of mythological monster trading cards, but I sure am glad they did, and I’m glad that Monster Brains and Jacob Covery teamed up to show them to us.
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* Ben Morse would like to know more about Maelstrom. And who wouldn’t?
* Real Life Horror: You title a post “Is It Good to Live in a Destroyed World?” and it contains not one single mention of zombie apocalypses or killer viruses or alien invasions or leather-clad mutant raiders roaming the wastelands? Dropped ball, Krugman, I don’t care how many Nobel Prizes you win.
* Mick Foley loves Tori Amos. Yes, that Mick Foley. Yes, that Tori Amos. (Via Maura Johnston.)
* Speaking of Johnston, back when I posted my list of 80 Great Tracks from the 1990s, certain persons who shall remain nameless scoffed at the inclusion of “Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe” by Whale, saying it was a go-nowhere one-hit-wonder. But once you’ve seen/heard the video for “Infinity Guitars” by Sleigh Bells, well, who’s hobo humpin’ now?