Linking around

Links around the internet

So, Evan Dorkin, Roger Langridge and Ed Solomon are getting together to do BILL & TED ARE DOOMED, a prequel to the unlikely third installment of the film series (co-written by Solomon, co-creator of the characters) that is theoretically going to be released later this year. I'm not sure if I ever saw the second film, and haven't seen the first one all the way through since it was released, but I did enjoy the comic book adaptation of the second film and follow-up original series that Dorkin did back in the early 1990s, and Langridge is always fun and a great choice for the artwork (see link for his cover to #1).

Mark Evanier has been filling the newly open time in his schedule he'd usually be spending moderating comics and animation panels at now-cancelled conventions with moderating comics and animation panels on-line. His YouTube channel is here, including discussions with Sergio Aragones, Scott Shaw!, Leonard Maltin and others.

Brian Hibbs presents his look at the 2019 sales of comics recorded through BookScan, which is always interesting. Basically a lot more young readers and a lot more Japanese comics than the direct market is able to sell (or at least that the direct market chooses not to buy from Diamond).

Mike Sterling, most likely to be the last comics blogger standing in the end, goes over some of his on-line history here. He's also raising some money for some medical bills over here so check that out.

Lars Ingebrigtsen, who previously did re-readings of comics published by Fantagraphics, Eclipse and Pacific recently finished up the same for Marvel's Epic imprint, reading everything they published over the course of seven months. Man, that must have been a lot to take. I mean, there are undeniably some gems in there, some of the best comics of the 1980s, but there's also a lot of stuff best left forgotten. Anyway, should join the previous series of posts as a valuable resource.

Discussion between Dave Sim and Todd Klein about comic book lettering, as part of a discussion about the use of some Cerebus pages in an upcoming Klein book about the history of comic book lettering. In other news, Todd Klein has a book called "The Art and History of Lettering Comics" coming out next year. Anyway, it's always interesting when Sim steps away from some of  his other obsessions and talks about the craft and history of comic book creation, and the posts have some good examples of some of his more ostentatious displays of virtuoso lettering.

Speaking of lettering, Harry Mendryk returned to his excellent Simon & Kirby Blog for a detailed seven post series about the lettering in those classic golden age comics, in particular the work of Howard Ferguson and Ben Oda.  Start with part 1 here.

And reminder, check out updates of various comic book weblogs over here. I'm only intermittently able to add links to that list, but this appears to be one of the times when I can, so if you have any recommendations feel free to let me know, either here to tweet to @bobh1970 (note it must have a compatible RSS feed, which some newer platforms don't seem to provide)