Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email me at david@multiversitycomics.com.
– There are a lot of reasons to love Matt Fraction, but his answer on Tumblr to someone asking about suicide is the most inspired and brilliant and truthful thing he’s written in 2013, and he’s probably my favorite writer so far this year. Really, any person should read this, as any life could be affected by suicide or depression or at least relate to what he’s talking about. It’s incredible.
– Once again, Jim Zubkavich breaks down the performance of his creator-owned project with Edwin Huang – Skullkickers – throughout its existence on a path to profitability. It’s a really amazing write-up – as Jim often gives us – and it’s really worth your time to read. For a numbers nerd like me, I love it. Take a look, but as he himself notes, this is the performance of just one creator-owned project. Each and every project takes a different path, and I wouldn’t treat this as a blueprint by any means.
– Mark Waid writes a piece for 13th Dimension about how he was in fact wrong that the print world was going the way of the dinosaur, in the face of a sustained boom in both print AND digital sales. It’s a nice little write-up for a new site that is seemingly worth paying attention to.
– Once upon a time, Erik Larsen was supposed to do some fill-in work for X-Force. Yesterday he shared a two page spread of that ill-fated run, and I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty badass.
– Ron Wimberly makes a comic for Nike’s Calvin & Johnson promotion, officially becoming the coolest thing to come out of that tremendously dumb marketing endeavor.
– Bad Lip Reading is a pretty damn amazing series of videos misinterpreting movies and TV shows spoken lines, and now? Now they hit Game of Thrones.
