CBLDF Member Holiday Party tonight!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Tonight, come celebrate comics and the First Amendment, while reveling alongside an all-star line up of creators! The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s NYC Holiday Member party, co-hosted by JahFurry, begins promptly at 7pm and continues until 11pm, with plenty of fun in between, including a live comics jam, raffles [...]
Continue ReadingHIGH MOON wins first Zuda competition
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Continue ReadingNot directly related to comics but…
Share this link on Facebook!TweetI don’t mean to alienate a good 8 million people, but is Washington DC a strange place or what? Go to the Corcoran Gallery near The Memorial and check out Ansel Adams in one wing, and Annie Liebowitz directly across. It’s a somewhat peculiar experience – smallish pictures of vast mountain vistas [...]
Continue Reading2008 Eisner Judges Announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet(Via CBR) The 2008 Eisner Judges have been announced. (Please forgive my second-sourcing blog news items. I know it’s not the best netiquette but I’m just a guest-blogger?) a.i.
Continue ReadingSpeaking of Major Dailies
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe LA Times’ Geoff Boucher on Marvel’s digital comics archive. a.i.
Continue ReadingSpeaking of (Wonder) Woman…
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe NY Times profiles DC’s first ongoing woman writer for Wonder Woman – Gail Simone, who also started “Women in Refrigerators.” This (Women in Refrigerators) is a list I made when it occurred to me that it’s not that healthy to be a female character in comics. I’m curious to find out [...]
Continue ReadingWomen. (sigh)
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhich came first, the thong or the asshole? Arguments for/against women being marketed for their looks are at least as old as Marisha Pessl. Second-wave feminism ebbed just in time for “computer technology” to give us “faceless egalitarianism.” So it should come as no surprise that there is a woman game programmer/producer [...]
Continue ReadingWGA Writer's Strike: Slogan's Heroes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe writers are still striking. Godspeed, o scribes! Nay the nectar of thine muse doth protest ill… An oldie but goodie: WIRED magazine blog points out the irony of WGA protest signs being so lame. They may be able to pen some of the most riveting dramas and hilarious comedies this side of [...]
Continue ReadingTryptopharts
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHey y’all. It’s Anne Ishii, previously of Vertical, guest-blogging for the next few days alongside Mark. I hope you had wonderful Thanksgivings. i.e. Not the kind where you go to the movies alone and then get sick on popcorn and your flask of plasticky bourbon, come home, and watch ten hours [...]
Continue ReadingOpen Thread: Black Friday deals/steals/horror stories
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe didn’t get a chance to experience Black Friday first hand today (too much sleeping during the day). Anyone want to share their expierences from shopping today, at the local comics store, big box retailer or online? Thankfully, our latest Amazon order came on Wednesday, allowing us to spent much of Thanksgiving night [...]
Continue ReadingHeidi MacDonald Sings Led Zeppelin stats
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet #22 – Most Viewed (Today) – Music #92 – Most Discussed (Today) – Music #87 – Top Favourites (Today) – Music Frightening, isn’t it? And that’s in ENGLAND where they have GOOD music.
Continue ReadingOperation: BREAKFAST — Success!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe made it! And so did graphic novels! This morning’s “Think Future” graphic novel panel seemed to have been a success — as one of the participants, I’ll have to let others decide the final verdict but from where I sat, it was worth getting up early for, and that’s the [...]
Continue ReadingGet the lead out
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFor all the writer/artist types out there, this might be a cool diversion. A website devoted to pencils of all shapes, sizes and colors. If you’re a striking writer, stock up on writing utensils while you have the chance. Posted by Mark Coale
Continue ReadingTo do: Moore/Doran spooky signing
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOne more hype filled post, as Collen Doran and Stuart Moore will be signing THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY tonight at the McNally bookstore in Soho as part of their “Literary Halloween party.” Come down dressed as your favorite literary character, meaning cosplay IS allowed. 6:00 – 7:30 Party Join us for McNally Robinson’s first-ever [...]
Continue ReadingBaddest Nerd on the Planet
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We all know that there are plenty of comics-reading athletes, from noted Superman fan Shaquille O’Neal to dozens and dozens of pro wrestlers. But, if we had to pick the scariest comic book fan of them all, it could easily be UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. The Brazilian Silva, who scored a [...]
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