* John Jackson Miller spotlights the best-selling comic book of the 1960: Uncle Scrooge.
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* Matthew Thurber contributes to "The Culture Diaries" at Paris Review.
* Brian Hibbs with a few, initial impressions from the ComicsPro meeting this past weekend.
* Andy Burns talks to Cole Haddon. Marc Mason talks to Sina Grace and Joshua Hale Fialkov.
* Eddie Campbell on Young Romance. James Abbott on Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails. Charles Yoakum on Genius, Isolated. Johanna Draper Carlson on The Bed Of My Dear King and Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #6. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Moon Knight (apparently not its full title). Grant Goggans on My Doomed Affair #2. Don MacPherson on Thief Of Thieves #1.
* not comics: so I took my Mom to the Gem and Minerals show over at the Tucson convention center yesterday. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to every person I've ever dragged to a comic book convention.
* Rob Clough picks a best of 2011, comic books edition. I didn't even know a Hate Annual came out in 2011.
* more from Frank Santoro on his tour up the West Coast.
* not comics: staring at fictional fantasy maps was a big part of the almost-like-comics portion of my youth. That Tolkien map in particular -- you know the one.
* Dave Kiersh is heading into the final hours of his recent Kickstarter campaign; as I'm writing this, it's still underfunded.
* not comics: here's a short series of Noel Sickles-created advertisements.
* Scott Edelman pulls out an obscurity from his files of Marvel original documentation ephemera.
* does anyone out there have an update on Rick Trembles' situation? I hope someone was able to employ him.
* finally, this bookmark has been sitting in my folder for at least a few days: a bunch of script work from the writer (and occasional cartoonist) Jeff Parker.
* Matthew Thurber contributes to "The Culture Diaries" at Paris Review.* Brian Hibbs with a few, initial impressions from the ComicsPro meeting this past weekend.
* Andy Burns talks to Cole Haddon. Marc Mason talks to Sina Grace and Joshua Hale Fialkov.
* Eddie Campbell on Young Romance. James Abbott on Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails. Charles Yoakum on Genius, Isolated. Johanna Draper Carlson on The Bed Of My Dear King and Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #6. J. Caleb Mozzocco on Moon Knight (apparently not its full title). Grant Goggans on My Doomed Affair #2. Don MacPherson on Thief Of Thieves #1.
* not comics: so I took my Mom to the Gem and Minerals show over at the Tucson convention center yesterday. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to every person I've ever dragged to a comic book convention.
* Rob Clough picks a best of 2011, comic books edition. I didn't even know a Hate Annual came out in 2011.
* more from Frank Santoro on his tour up the West Coast.
* not comics: staring at fictional fantasy maps was a big part of the almost-like-comics portion of my youth. That Tolkien map in particular -- you know the one.
* Dave Kiersh is heading into the final hours of his recent Kickstarter campaign; as I'm writing this, it's still underfunded.
* not comics: here's a short series of Noel Sickles-created advertisements.
* Scott Edelman pulls out an obscurity from his files of Marvel original documentation ephemera.
* does anyone out there have an update on Rick Trembles' situation? I hope someone was able to employ him.
* finally, this bookmark has been sitting in my folder for at least a few days: a bunch of script work from the writer (and occasional cartoonist) Jeff Parker.