Your 2012 Russ Manning Award Nominees
The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award nominees were named earlier today by Comic-Con International. They are. The 2012 nominees are: * Craig Cermak, artist of Voltron, Year One (published by...
View ArticleGo, Read: Grant Morrison On Action Comics, Siegel And Shuster
The writer about comics Kiel Phegley did an interview with the writer Grant Morrison this week about winding down his run on DC's re-launched Action Comics. I don't have an easy way to measure if...
View ArticleMissed It: A Bunch Of Really Old News Briefs
Here's a small group of most self-evident stories that for some reason or another did not find their way into Random News. I apologize for their lateness. What tends to happen is that I think, "Oh,...
View ArticleBundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon * David Lloyd and Bambos Georgiou are launching a weekly digital comics anthology. * AdHouse announces a Thomas Herpich book to debut at SPX: White Clay. * Allan Holtz is looking to...
View ArticleOn The Arts Critic Robert Hughes, RIP
It'd be laughable for me to attempt an obituary for the art critic and historian Robert Hughes. I've barely read him, and it's even been years upon years since I've seen the BBC/PBS series by which he...
View ArticleCarlos Albiac, 1928-2012
Carlos Albiac, the prolific Argentine writer of comics series that were widely published in Europe, died on August 1. Albiac was born in Buenos Aires. Albiac began his comics writing career in 1958...
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