Kibbles 'n' Bits

As you may have heard, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush -- who has been criticized for not being as sharp as he should be...

Captain UN-America? Some think so. Also: go see Harvey Kurtzman and don't touch your cel phone because it's dirty. Plus Brian K Vaughan reveals something awesome. And is manga really a cat?

§ The BBC has a short video interview with Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama, which I can't embed because BBC. Isayama talks about his struggles to get AoT published, and the rejection he faced, and confesses "My self esteem was so low when my editor showed interest I thought what's wrong with this guy." He says he thought he would end up working in a manga cafe because his art was considered so bad. This is the typical low self esteem expressed by cartoonists, so there is really no difference between manga and US comics. But who is laughing now, with AoT having sold some 52 million copies.

Okay maybe a slight exaggeration but I've been very tardy here so this is like, two weeks wort at least. So.... § Via Rich Johnston,...

§ The Ninth Circuit Curt of Appeal has ruled that DC owns the trademark on the Batmobile—file this under not too surprising. The case...

Last night for the first time, there was a nip of fall in the air...a snap in the step and a whiff of pumpkin in the latte. And then came a blast of hay fever or something and I started sneezing. But other than that it was great. SPX is this weekend, along with the Brooklyn Book Festival and a lot of other great events. The fall season is kicking off and and a lot of great comics are about to be here. Celebrate!

§ Condolences to Matt Fraction on the passing of his father. Dennis Fritchman attended several HeroesCon with is family and clearly he was a man...

§ I know it's all good, but Todd Allen looks at some of the shaky ground that the comics industry growth is based on: As...

Those two yahoos who came to the Pokémon World Championships totally strapped have been denied bail, even though their lawyer says they just had a car full of guns for fun times and never meant any harm. A story in the Boston Globe has many more details of the duo's threats against other Pokémon players:

§ Alert! Harvey Awards voting closes today! § Cary W. Coatney went to the opening of the Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of...

§ I don't often run Kickstarter checks, but I see Mike Dawson's Rules for Dating my Daughter kickstarter is nearly fully funded after only...

§ Once again, Alison Bechdel's award winning graphic novel Fun Home is at the center of a Carolina college controversy. The book has been assigned...