Twenty-One Not Exactly Original Notes On More Watchmen, Written At A Slight...
1. In and of itself, More Watchmen is an interesting story, but it's not that interesting a story. The More Watchmen story reminds us of how enthralled even the most enlightened comics fans are by an...
View ArticleSo Are These All The Mignola-Verse Comic Books?
I needed to make a list of comics centered around the Hellboy and BPRD characters of Mike Mignola. I needed it to be a checklist-style list of the comic books as opposed to stories or trades, and I...
View ArticleRandom Comics News Story Round-Up
* John Jackson Miller spotlights the best-selling comic book of the 1960: Uncle Scrooge. * Matthew Thurber contributes to "The Culture Diaries" at Paris Review. * Brian Hibbs with a few, initial...
View ArticleBundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
* from the Canadian comics news clearinghouse Sequential comes word of a new Jesse Jacobs book debuting from Koyama at TCAF. Not to be outdone, Conundrum announced its four TCAF debuts mid-week last...
View ArticleGo, Read: Kim Deitch's Ode To Joel Fabrikant
Via Dan Nadel comes word of this essay by Kim Deitch about figures and interactions from the days of the East Village Other, in particular Joel Fabrikant. Deitch is pretty much the most valuable player...
View ArticleBlaine MacDonald, 1937-2012
Bryan Munn of Sequential and local media sources are reporting that the political cartoonist Blaine MacDonald died on February 6 after a long battle with various health issues. He was 74 years old, an...
View ArticleBob Englehart Suspended From The Hartford Courant
Daryl Cagle has a lengthy, I'd say sympathetic but not overly so post up here about the Hartford Courant suspending the cartoonist (and Cagle client) Bob Englehart for one week without pay for a...
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