This Isn't A Library: Notable Releases To The Comics Direct Market
Here are the books that make an impression on me staring at this week's no-doubt largely accurate list of books shipping from Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. to comic book and hobby shops across...
View ArticleWB/DC Wins Potentially Key Legal Victory; Still Gross
The entertainment wires fairly crackle right now with various hard-driving articles about a big Warner Brothers/DC Comics win in their ongoing series of litigation with the families of Superman...
View ArticleTime Names Ali Ferzat To Their Most Influential People List
Matt Weurker has the write-up for Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat's inclusion on the Time Top 100, a yearly feature they do to spotlight influential political and cultural figures. I thought Ferzat was...
View ArticleThe Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon * SPACE in Columbus this weekend. When many of the newer small-press shows were a inkling in their founders' eyes, there was SPACE. * FLUKE! is on Saturday as well. That's another...
View ArticleGo, Look: Paul Sloboda's Web Site, Including Blog
it's new since I last looked at Paul's stuff, anyway
View ArticleComics' Giving Heart -- People, Projects In Need Of Funding
* the cartoonist and writer Ted Rall is auctioning off a dozen pieces of original art to benefit the Rex Babin Trust. That's a nice thing for Ted to do. * the Sparkplug fundraising project has settled...
View ArticleGo, Read: Massive Before Watchmen Post At Comics Alliance
I know there have been a lot of these lately, and that most of the most recent have come from the keyboard of the same writer, David Brothers, but this is one of those occasions where not only is the...
View ArticleBefore "Before Watchmen" There Was Spain Rodriguez
I think Rorschach from Watchmen is a really good character. I've never had any desire to see more of the guy, but the character is used well in the story that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons decided to...
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