§ Dan Nadel uncovers the Real Deal from 1989 at Comics Comics.

One of the rare contemporary African-American created and published comics, Real Deal depicts L.A. underworld life with visceral, bone-dry humor and gross out violence rendered in Hubbard’s uniquely gnarly line. Anyhow, I was also happy to discover that Hubbard still has some back issues of Real Deal, so PictureBox will be representing with the original printings of issues 1 and 3-6 at MoCCA and, shortly, online at pictureboxinc.com. Prices at the festival will be $10 for issue 1 and $6 each for the rest.

• Two from Comixology:

§ Kristy Valenti compares two collections covering first-time sexual experiences.

§ Tucker Stone scores an interview with Queen of All She Surveys, Kate Beaton.

• Two from the sales vault of John Jackson Miller:

§ April was the first month in recorded comics history that Detective Comics topped the charts.

§ In addition, JJM compares a chart from 1994 to what is known now to see that the Top 300 occupied a very similar share of the DM when there were 600 comic book periodicals a month as opposed to today’s lessened output as opposed to today’s lessened output. (For periodicals — GNs probably add up to more comics on a monthly basis.)

So we see that in a year with likely a longer tail than we have in 2009, Capital’s Top 300 accounted for more than 95.35% of the comics it sold — or, put another way, only about 1 in 21 copies preordered were outside the Top 300. Capital itself observed that half the comics sold were represented by the Top 67.

§ Jog too has been digging into obscure US editions of Euro-comix of days past and comes up with a political horror comic by Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia.

§ Susan King in the LA Times writes of a large, sometimes NSFW Anime exhibit on display at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills.

§ Reporters kvetch over crap access at the opening of the new Hergé Museum.

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