50 Comics Positives In 2012: A Good Year For The DM
I love comic book shops. The best ones fulfill the promise of "the place that has all the comics" that triggered their spread in the 1970s and 1980s; even the terrible ones have something to offer, if...
View ArticleYesterday CR Ran 50 Comics Positives For 2012
Yesterday this site celebrated the opening of a brand-new year with 50 posts about positive news stories from 2012. They were: * The Hernandez Brothers Celebrated 30 Years Of Love And Rockets * Keith...
View ArticleRandom Comics News Story Round-Up
* Kathleen David continues to provide updates on her husband Peter David, post-stroke. She's long been one of my favorite comics-culture bloggers because of how thorough and straight-forward she is, so...
View ArticleForthcoming Comics-Related Events, This Month And Next
January 3 * If I Were In Portland, I'd Go To This January 20 * If I Were In Charlotte, I'd Go To This January 25 * If I Were In Phoenix, I'd Go To This January 26 * If I Were In Phoenix, I'd Go To...
View ArticleCR Holiday Interview #14 -- Dean Haspiel
***** As we discuss below I met Dean Haspiel at the first comics show I attended as a working funnybook professional, a Chicago convention that I think might have also been Dean's first in support of...
View ArticleCR Holiday Interview #15 -- Jenny E. Robb
***** Jenny E. Robb became the curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum almost exactly two years ago, after a long and fruitful stint with Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco followed...
View ArticleRandom Comics News Story Round-Up
* whoa, Jacques Tardi. * Michael Cavna notes that the NCS has split its webcomics divisional awards category into short- and long-form designations. * Brigid Alverson has posted a comic form Dylan...
View ArticleCR Holiday Interview #16 -- Heidi MacDonald
***** I met Heidi MacDonald at San Diego in 1995, five minutes before moderating the infamous "Get Larry Marder Panel" after Image had made the decision to throw in with Diamond and change the face of...
View ArticleRandom Comics News Story Round-Up
* I'm posting like two to four days ahead on Random News through the duration of the Holiday Interview Series, so you may have seen the Eisners Call For Submissions before now. * Noah Berlatsky on...
View ArticleCR Holiday Interview #17 -- Matthew Southworth
***** Matthew Southworth is one of the best artists working the crime quadrants of the North American comic book field. An accomplished musician with a background in filmmaking, playwriting and...
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