Doug Wright’s Nipper Vs. Amazon

I've been reading that Nipper, the first collection of Doug Wright's cartoons, is out from Drawn & Quarterly and already getting some nice notice.

Nipper's a "mischievous little kid" who appeared in newspapers across the country in the mid 20th century." D&Q's Nipper 1963-64 is the first of what the publisher plans as a long-running series of books collecting Wright's classic.

There's a preview of it (pdf) at the D&Q website that offers a nice taste of Wright.

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COMIC BOOK RETAILERS IN TROUBLE?

Comic Book Retailers In Trouble sounds like a great title for a must-read graphic novel – something that maybe Drawn & Quarterly, Oni or even Fantagraphics might publish, drawn by Dan Clowes or Seth.

These kinds of stories don’t happen very often – most retailers are a swell bunch of guys who would prefer to peep only in the inside of a longbox. So when crimes allegedly involving a retailer, a convention promoter or a comic book creator suddenly make the news, well, it’s at least as newsworthy as those World’s Biggest Tomato stories your local evening news.

But riddle me this, Bat-fans: if you’re allegedly going to allegedly indulge your alleged fetish for watching women go to the bathroom, why would you choose a low-traffic area like the bathroom of a comic book store?