Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/16/15: Costumes aren’t forever
§ For everyone foaming at the mouth over the new DC costumes, here's a reminder that Wonder Woman once wore biker shorts, people. In other words, changing clothes is like death in comics—it's all...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/13/15: Breaking the $5 barrier
§ Ryan Holmberg's obituary for Tatsumi Yoshihiro is a must read, not only as a personal remembrance of the man and who he affected the author, but as a history of how one creator...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/12/15: Comics art in museums, what’s up with that?
§ Hall of fame artist Bernie Wrightson has had a bunch of recent health setbacks, and now what appears to be a cancerous brain tumor. However the prognosis is excellent and he hopes...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/9/15: Secrets of the Manga Industry Revealed
§ Deb Aoki is the Charles Dickens of Storify, You may know her from that other one we mentioned recently, but she also put together an epic compilation on manga translation based on her...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/6/15: RIP Gordon Kent
§ Prolific animator and writer Gordon Kent, who worked on everything from Fangface to Bob's Burgers, has passed after a battle with cancer. Kent was the original colorist on Groo and a much loved...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/5/15: Area woman finds comics are not as she remembered
It would be easy to mock this Jen Teasdale-style column in the Norfolk Daily News where a woman goes to find some comics in her local bookstore but finds only superheroes and not Little Lulu, but I think there is a lesson in it. The tone is not the anger you sometimes find —"That's not MY Aquaman!"—but rather curiosity.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/3/15: 8-year-old releases profane tirade to protest paper cancelling Garfield
§ I know this is hilarious but it is also an example of our nation's moral decline when a child of 8 calls his local newspaper "Idiots. Jerks. Sh*tholes." for cutting the comics page....
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/2/2015: Only five more months of winter!
§ First off, in the Massive Achievements Dept., Kelly Thompson has put together a massive, massive list of women who makes comics. Everyone stand up and applaud.
§ Everyone wants to go to...
KIbbles /n/ Bits 2/26/15: High Moon is back!
§ High Moon, the werewolf/cowboy comic by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis is back. After running on DC's Zuda webcomic site (remember that?) and seeing a print edition, four new pages will be...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/24/15: Small press show caught in Comic-Con tidal wave
§ SPACE, the long running small press show located in Columbus, is moving to a new venue and time frame this year: July 18 &19, 2015 at the Northland Performing Arts Center. The date is the weekend after San Diego, which is not ideal, but SPACE had no choice, as organizer Bob Corby explains in an email:
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/23/15: Area Woman live draws the Oscars
§ Just to finish up the Oscars, which everyone has probably already forgotten, cartoonist Liza Donnelly live drew them on her twitter feed, and got a big write up in her local paper about it, and also did some nice drawings.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/20/15: Retailer utilizes proprietary modge-podge method to turn ruined comics into...
Sorry there haven't been any kibbles 'n' bits this week. It's just been too cold at Stately Beat Manor, and that's the truth. All we want to do is pile on the blankets and chug hot cocoa. But we've been storing things up and now there are so many we must break this into sections.
