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Share this link on Facebook!TweetSteven Grant looks at the crazy goings on of the past week, specifically the “Dan DiDio is getting the Willie Randolph treatment!” rumor and how it becomes morphed into fanthink: Fanthink is an interesting beast. It starts with the premise, which perhaps not coincidentally is what the DC comics universe has been [...]
Continue ReadingMaury joins NPR
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFrequent PWCW contributor and Beat pal Laurel Maury has been named the new official comics reviewer for NPR. Congratulations to Laurel! Her first piece covers THE RABBI’S CAT: If you’re used to comics smacking you over the head with superheroes and fantasy, prepare to be seduced and charmed. Joann Sfar’s series about [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetDollar Bin has the audio of the infamous Covering Comics panel from Heroes Con up, so you can judge for yourselves how pathetic we sound. God, this is depressing. How can intelligent people say this stuff and not acknowledge what’s coming out of their mouths? This isn’t journalism, or criticism, [...]
Continue ReadingCome back to the five and dime, Michael Dean, Michael Dean
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[Ironically, this post was supposed to go up yesterday but got eaten by Ecto -- I've had to recreate it from scratch and may have lost some of my momentum along the way.] If you’ve been reading this blog or other lately you may have noticed that there’s quite a bit of [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Douglas Wolk, bless him, is using the brains the good lord gave him for a new Final Crisis Annotations blog. It’s in-depth. Title: It’s worth unpacking this a little. DC is, of course, the publisher of this comic and the corporate owner of its intellectual property; DC stands for DETECTIVE COMICS, [...]
Continue ReadingWhere is everyone?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhere’s the blogosphere? What happened to everyone? Is it just the warm weather? We know *we* have problems, but what’s everyone else story. Maybe it’s time for a poll: What are the best message boards about comics? We used to hang out on Delphi, The V, and The Engine but now we hardly [...]
Continue ReadingDavid Lapham's dangerous life
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDavid Lapham (STRAY BULLETS, YOUNG LIARS) joins the ranks of the bloggerati: One of the main reasons I decided to start a blog was to refute some of the rumors swirling around certain circles about myself and what happened before. By that I mean before I was a cartoonist, before I [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Hope Larson has a new website up for her more adult art: Personal Ho. (left) § We totally forgot that the Pittsburgh Comicon was held this weekend, but it is now apparently dubbed “Murder con.” Someone wrote about it to the Comics Reporter and from the sound of it, it was [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetBig BIG report over at The Comics Reporter as Bart Beaty lays smack down on David Hajdu’s THE TEN CENT PLAGUE: I read The Ten-Cent Plague with great avidity. Hajdu is a compelling storyteller, and his interviews with some of the key players at the time add important shadings to our understanding [...]
Continue ReadingWord Balloons blog debuts
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWord Balloons is a new blog which aims to be the daily morning read for kids comics. Tt’s edited by Brigid Alverson, so that’s a good start. She’s aided by Katherine Dacey, Lori Henderson, Esther Keller, Eva Volin and Snow Wildsmith, a merry band of writers and librarians whom we [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Via the Scienteers: Zuda — ouchie. Instead of forcing us to choke down the overly complex controls and key-strokes in order to get the comic to even be readable in the first place, why not do a fixed size version with the typical page-by-page navigation 99.9% of other webcomic sites offer? [...]
Continue ReadingNew review crews: Shuffleboil, Mindless Ones
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTwo newish review sites offering solid crticisms: Occasional comics writer John Mitchell, who works with wife Jana, has some lengthy reviews at Shuffleboil such as this one, on INCOGNEGRO: Though not sold as part of this genre, Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s “Incognegro” is very ingrained in it. Essentially, this tale of [...]
Continue ReadingBlog report: Mouly, etc.
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jeet Heer explains why Francoise Mouly is Underappreciated and Essential. We agree. Strongly. Is there anyone in the cartooning world who is more underrated than Francoise Mouly? She has strong claims to be the most important comics editor of the last 30 years, but I suspect that if you asked your [...]
Continue ReadingColumns: Gender, stores, soaps
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Kristy Valenti has the second part of her Gender and Reading Habits examination up, this time the girls are scrutinized, although more is known of their reading habits in general than comics reading habits specifically: Additionally, women read more, maintained USA Today while discussing a 2007 poll: “the median figure — [...]
Continue ReadingOur vanishing internets
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet That last post about Ric Flair illustrated something we’ve been noticing for a long time: how the disappearance of the “fan page” is resulting in increasing constriction of some kinds of information easily available on the internet. Google Ric Flair, or Evil Dead, or anything nerdy really…Morty Gunty. The first result will be [...]
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